classical scholar

1. 1.

   a student of ancient Greek and Latin

   Synonymsclassicist

   Broaderhumanist

   NarrowerLatinistJowettMurrayWolf

Questions about classical scholar

What does classical scholar mean?

classical scholar means "a student of ancient Greek and Latin".

What is another word for classical scholar?

Close synonyms include classicist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is classical scholar a common word?

classical scholar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.