Definition of "scholar"

scholar

/ˈskɒlə/

noun
plural scholars
1. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
2. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
3. A learned person; a bookman.
  Quotations
  The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
  2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
4. (Singapore) someone who received a prestigious scholarship