Scholar vs. Academic

Scholarnoun

A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

Scholarnoun

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

Scholarnoun

A learned person; a bookman.

Scholarnoun

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.

Scholarnoun

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.

Scholarnoun

A man of books.

Scholarnoun

In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

Scholarnoun

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

Scholarnoun

someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

Scholarnoun

a student who holds a scholarship

Scholar

A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly those that develop expertise in an area of study. A scholar may also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher or researcher at a university or other higher education institution.

Academicadjective

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato

Academicadjective

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.

Academicadjective

Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to practical or vocational

Academicadjective

Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical: having no practical importance.

Academicadjective

Having a love of or aptitude for learning.

Academicadjective

(art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.

Academicadjective

So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.

Academicadjective

Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.

Academicadjective

Study of humanities topics rather than science and engineering.

Academicnoun

A follower of Plato, a Platonist.

Academicnoun

A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.

Academicnoun

A member of the Academy; an academician.

Academicnoun

(archaic) A student in a college.

Academicnoun

(pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals.

Academicnoun

(pluralonly) Academic studies.

Academicadjective

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

Academicadjective

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

Academicnoun

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Academicnoun

A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

Academicnoun

an educator who works at a college or university

Academicadjective

associated with academia or an academy;

Academicadjective

hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result;

Academicadjective

marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects