a person who specializes in or has knowledge of a particular subject, esp in the arts
chiefly archaic or literary a person of learning and academic interests
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading — Shakespeare
a university student who holds a scholarship
somebody who attends a school or studies under a teacher
[Old English scolere from late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola: see school1]