0 a person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at a university: --
David's never been much of a scholar.
Dr Miles was a distinguished scholar of Russian history.
1 a person with great knowledge, usually of a particular subject --
The conclusions appreciably raise the figures hitherto suggested by most modern scholars.
There are of course many people, including language scholars of great probity, who are watchful about prescription and hostile to 'prescriptivism'.
Language scholars are divided over the status of such forms or how to account for them.
Because of its extensive use, scholars have, inevitably perhaps, tried to pigeonhole it.
In the preface the author states that the book is aimed at scholars and students from both geological and archaeological backgrounds.
There are some excellent pieces by leading scholars.
Their controversy then slumbered, and it is only recently that scholars have exhumed it.
The twenty included in this volume widen its scope and enhance greatly its use to scholars.
