Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scholar

Scholar , noun

[Old English scoler, Anglo-Saxon scōlere, from Latin scholaris belonging to a school, from schola a school. See School.]

1.
One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
I am no breeching scholar in the schools. — Shakespeare
2.
One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. — Shak. Locke
3.
A man of books. — Bacon
4.
In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.