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| Main Entry: | scholar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is very involved in education and learning |
| Synonyms: | academic, augur, bookworm*, brain*, critic, disciple, doctor, egghead*, gnome*, grind*, intellectual, learned person, learner, philosopher, professor, pupil, sage, savant, scientist, student, teacher, tool, bookish person, litterateur, person of letters, schoolchild, wise person |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | academic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scholar or university/college teacher |
| Synonyms: | lecturer, professor, pupil, scholar, scholastic, student, tutor, academician |
| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
| Main Entry: | egghead |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual |
| Synonyms: | bookworm*, brain*, geek*, genius, highbrow, know-it-all*, rocket scientist*, scholar, thinker, bluestocking, longhair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gentleperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | polite, well-mannered person |
| Synonyms: | aristocrat, brick*, good egg*, noble, scholar, good person, nice person |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | highbrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual, very smart person |
| Synonyms: | academic, brain*, egghead*, genius, philosopher, sage, savant, scholar, thinker, whiz*, Einstein, academician, bluestocking, illuminato, intelligentsia, literato, longhair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intellectual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very smart person |
| Synonyms: | academic, avant-garde, brain*, doctor, egghead*, genius, highbrow*, philosopher, pundit, sage, scholar, thinker, whiz*, wizard, Einstein, academician, braintruster, intelligentsia |
| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | learner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who receives education |
| Synonyms: | abecedarian, apprentice, beginner, bookworm, disciple, initiate, neophyte, novice, pupil, scholar, student, trainee, catechumen, probationer |
| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
| Main Entry: | pundit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is authority |
| Synonyms: | auger, bookworm, brain*, buff, egghead*, expert, intellectual, philosopher, professor, savant, scholar, teacher, thinker, cereb, cognoscenti, learned one, solon |
| Antonyms: | amateur |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pupil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is learning something |
| Synonyms: | adherent, attendant, beginner, bookworm*, brain*, disciple, follower, junior, learner, neophyte, novice, satellite, scholar, senior, student, tenderfoot*, undergraduate, catechumen, first-year student, graduate student, schoolboy/ girl, sophomore |
| Antonyms: | professor, teacher |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | specialist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is an expert in a field |
| Synonyms: | ace, adept, authority, connoisseur, consultant, devotee, doctor, guru*, old hand*, pro*, professional, pundit, sage, savant, scholar, veteran, virtuoso, attending physician, old pro, technician |
| Antonyms: | general practitioner |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | student |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person actively learning |
| Synonyms: | apprentice, disciple, docent, graduate, junior, learner, novice, observer, pupil, scholar, skill, undergraduate, first-year student, grad, registrant, schoolchild, sophomore, undergrad |
| Antonyms: | professor, teacher |
| Main Entry: | teacher |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who educates |
| Synonyms: | adviser, assistant, coach, disciplinarian, educator, guide, instructor, lecturer, mentor, pedagogue, preceptor, professor, pundit, scholar, supervisor, teach*, trainer, tutor, abecedary, faculty member, schoolteacher |
| Antonyms: | pupil, student |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bookworm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | booklover |
| Synonyms: | intellectual, reader, savant, scholar, bibliophile |
| Main Entry: | interpreter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | translator |
| Synonyms: | analyst, artist, commentator, critic, delegate, editor, exponent, guide, linguist, philosopher, professor, reviewer, scholar, speaker, spokesperson, writer, annotator, biographer, decoder, exegete, explicator, expositor, glossographer, paraphraser |
| Notes: | an interpreter converts speech to another language and a translator converts writing to another language |
| Main Entry: | learned person |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | educated person |
| Synonyms: | brain, intellectual, know-it-all, sage, scholar, bibliophile, bookman, bookwoman, erudite person, man or woman of learning, man or woman of letters, savant(e), walking encyclopedia |
| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
| Main Entry: | man of letters |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | man of learning |
| Synonyms: | brain, intellectual, savant, scholar, belletrist, educated person, literary craftsman, literary scholar, litterateur, walking encyclopedia, wordsmith |
| Main Entry: | thinker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual |
| Synonyms: | brain*, intellect, mastermind, philosopher, rocket scientist*, sage, savant, scholar, visionary, intellectualist, sophist, theorist, wise man, wise person, wise woman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very smart person |
| Synonyms: | doctor, egghead*, genius, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, mastermind, prodigy, pundit, sage, scholar, Einstein, academician |
| Antonyms: | simpleton, dumbo, dumdum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expert, animate or inanimate |
| Synonyms: | arbiter, aristocrat, bible, big cheese*, big shot*, boss, brass*, buff*, city hall*, connoisseur, czar, egghead*, establishment*, executive, expert, front office*, governor, guru, judge, law*, pro, professional, professor, pundit, scholar, specialist, textbook*, upstairs, veteran, virtuoso, whiz, wizard, CEO, big wig, brains, exec, feds, ivory dome, kingfish, kingpin, power elite, top brass, top dog, top hand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reader |
| Part of Speech: | noun3 |
| Definition: | anyone admitted to a library |
| Synonyms: | browser, scholar, student, library patron, research worker, user |
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