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Schoolman

Definitions: Schoolman

Schoolman

Noun

1. A scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism.

2. A scholar who is skilled in academic disputation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Schoolman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)



Synonyms: Schoolman

Synonyms: academician (n), medieval Schoolman (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Schoolman

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Scholar

Noun: scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue; Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.

Theology

Theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist; the Fathers.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Schoolman

English words defined with "Schoolman": medieval SchoolmanSchoolmen. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Schoolman": Sentences. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Schoolman

DomainTitle

Books

  • Martin Grove Brumbaugh: A Pennsylvanian's Odyssey from Sainted Schoolman to Bedeviled World War I Governor, 1862-1930 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Schoolman

"Schoolman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Schoolman" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Schoolman

The following table summarizes the usage of "Schoolman" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SchoolmanLast name17049,519
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Schoolman

Expression using "Schoolman": medieval Schoolman. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Schoolman

Language Translations for "Schoolman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

skolastik (scholastic), mësues (doctor, educator, instructor, pedagogue, Professor, scholar, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, teacher). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏أستاذ في الجامعة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

схоластик (scholastic), учител (dominie, educator, guru, instructor, master, pedagogue, preceptor, schoolmaster, teacher). (various references)

   

Czech

  

scholastik. (various references)

   

French

  

professeur (schoolmaster, schoolmistress, schoolteacher). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

teológus (divine, theologian). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scolastico (scholastic, school, school fees, student). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fallsoonagh (philosopher, philosophic, philosophical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oolmanschay

   

Portuguese

  

professor (beak, instructor, lector, lecturer, master, preceptor, professor, professorate, schoolteacher, teacher), escolástico (academical, scholastic). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

scolast (scholastic), profesor (academic, master, pedagogue, pedant, professor, schoolmaster, teacher), învãţãtor (master, pedagogue, school teacher, schoolmaster, teacher, usher). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

схоласт (scholastic), преподаватель (academic, teacher). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sholastičar (scholastic, schoolmaster, school-master), pedagog (educationalist, pedagogue, schoolmaster, school-master), naučnik (boffin, savant, scientist). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escolástico (scholastic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

skolastik görüşlü kimse, ortaçağda üniversite eğitmeni. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

схоласт (doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dunce, scholastic), викладач філософії, педагог (educationalist, educationist, educator, pedagog, pedagogue, schoolteacher). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ysgolwr. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Schoolman

Misspellings

"Schoolman" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scholme, Schoonman, Schulmann, Schurman. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Schoolman

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-l-m-n-o-o-s"

-2 letters: lochans, molochs, moolahs.

-3 letters: cashoo, cholos, colons, consol, hansom, lochan, machos, macons, mascon, mochas, moloch, moolah, moolas, nachos, salmon, saloon, school, shalom, sholom, smooch, socman, solano.

-4 letters: achoo, calms, calos, canso, chams, chaos, chasm, cholo, clams, clans, clash, clons, coals, cohos, colas, colon, comal, comas, cools, coons, halms, halos, holms, homos, loach, loams, loans, lochs, locos, looms, loons, macho, machs, macon, manos, mason, moans, mocha, molas, monas, monos, mooch, moola, mools, moons, nacho, nolos, nomas, nomos, osmol, salon, schmo, shoal, shool, shoon, snool, solan, solon.

-5 letters: alms, also, calm, calo, cams, cans, cash, cham, chao, chon, clam, clan, clon, coal, coho, cola, cols, coma, cons, cool, coon, coos, cosh, halm, halo, hams, holm, hols, homo, hons, lacs, lams, lash, loam, loan, loca, loch, loco, loom, loon, loos, mach, macs, mano, mans, mash, mhos, moan, moas, mocs, mola, mols, mono, mons, mool, moon, moos, mosh, naos, nolo, noma, noms, nosh, ocas, ohms, oohs, scam, scan, sham, shmo, shoo, slam, sola, solo, soma, soon.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-l-m-n-o-o-s"
 

+2 letters: monochasial.

 

+4 letters: commonwealths.

 

+5 letters: antialcoholism, cholangiograms, machicolations, monotheistical, nonchromosomal, physiognomical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Schoolman


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 68 6F 6F 6C 6D 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ....    ---    ---    .-..    --    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 01101101 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#108 &#109 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C 006D 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536974818178796780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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