scholarly person

Questions about scholarly person

What does scholarly person mean?

scholarly person means "a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines".

What is another word for scholarly person?

Close synonyms include scholar, bookman, student. 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 scholarly person a common word?

scholarly person 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.