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Definitions: Scholar |
ScholarNoun1. A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines. 2. Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs. 3. A student who holds a scholarship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scholar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Education | One who by long systematic study (as in university) has gained a high degree of mastery in one or more of the academic disciplines. Source: European Union. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Scholar, Pupil. Although these words are often used synonymously and with good authority, it would be better to limit the former to learned persons and to apply the latter to persons under instruction. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a "mastery" of some academic discipline. In British usage, a scholar is equally likely to be a schoolchild (usually a boy) or a learned person. In American usage, the "schoolchild" meaning is rare. The word sometimes carries an connotation making it remote from modern America; it can aptly be used to describe learned persons of other times or places, but rarely is it used for the most educated persons of the modern United States.
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Synonyms: ScholarSynonyms: assimilator (n), learner (n), scholarly person (n), student (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Good Man | Salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men. |
Ignoramus | Noun: ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar. |
Dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre. | |
Knowledge | Scholar. |
Language | Literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship; (scholar). |
Learner | Noun: learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice, journeyman; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian; alumnus, eleve. |
Scholar | Phrase: "he was a scholar and a ripe and good one"; "the manifold linguist". |
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. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Always the cautious scholar, huh, Dr. Hunt? (Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death; writing credit: J.F. Lawton) I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but dammit, Thomas, look at these names! (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt) He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior. (Lawrence of Arabia; writing credit: T.E. Lawrence; Robert Bolt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Scholar (1918) Road Scholar (1993) The Scholar in Society: Northrop Frye in Conversation (1984) | |
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![]() | Portrait of the author - Daniel Schwenter, scholar; a mathematician and linguist familiar with Greek, Latin, Arabic, etc. "Geometriae practicae novae et auctae tractatus I[-IV] ..." by Schwenter, Daniel, 1585-1636. Vol II, page 1. Published posthumously in 1641.Credit: Treasures of the Library. | ![]() | [A scholar looking into a microscope].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | The First NCNR Distinguished Scholar Seminar.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Mary Jane as a Sunday school scholar.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | A Woman's place is at the top : Annie Smith Peck, Oct. 19, 1850-July 18, 1935 : mountain climber, scholar, suffragist ...Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Chuang Tzu | He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self in not a scholar. |
Confucius | The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. |
Lao-Tzu | A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. |
Mencius | If a scholar have not faith [in his principles], how shall he take a firm hold of things? |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. |
Robert Burton | A mere scholar, a mere ass. |
The Koran | The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven. |
Thomas B. Macaulay | He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It has a constant and imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result. |
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Civil Liberties | Morocco | On October 26, the press freely published an interview with Dr. Driss Kettani, an extremist Islamic scholar, in which he accused the Minister of Islamic Affairs of abuse of power. (references) |
Pakistan | According to AI, there was one report of the forced return of a person to a country where he feared persecution during 2000. Professor Mohammad Rahim Elhan, a prominent Afghan scholar who had accused the Government of interfering in the internal affairs of Afghanistan, was deported against his will to Afghanistan in June 2000. However, he subsequently was permitted to reenter the country. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | In February the FSB arrested a foreign scholar, John Tobin, in Voronezh on drug charges. (references) |
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| "Scholar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Scholar" is used about 704 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.86% | 703 | 9,512 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 704 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scholar": become a scholar ♦ biblical scholar ♦ chinese scholar tree ♦ classical scholar ♦ greek scholar ♦ half scholar ♦ latin scholar ♦ no scholar ♦ Rhodes scholar. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "scholar": scholar-administrator, scholar-bishop, scholar-cd, scholar-critic, scholar-critics, scholar-gent, scholar-gentleman, Scholar-king, scholar-librarians, scholar-poet, scholar-preacher-bard, scholar-priest, scholar-reviewers, scholar-soldier, scholar-students. | |
Ending with "scholar": day-scholar, gentleman-scholar, scientist-scholar. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rhodes scholar | 180 |
choice scholar | 132 |
scholar | 82 |
merit national scholar | 57 |
fulbright scholar | 40 |
american scholar | 37 |
scholar texas | 30 |
presidential scholar | 29 |
inn scholar | 23 |
road scholar | 22 |
dollar scholar | 21 |
gate millennium scholar | 19 |
rhode scholar | 18 |
21st century scholar | 18 |
academy missouri scholar | 17 |
islamic scholar | 16 |
ontario scholar | 14 |
woodrow wilson international center for scholar | 13 |
fullbright scholar | 13 |
evans scholar | 13 |
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| Language | Translations for "scholar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | student (academic, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dijetar (erudite, polymath, savant, scientist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مثقف (cultivated, cultured, educated, educative, enlightened, informative, instructive, intellectual, learned, literate, polished, refined), علامة (denotation, evidence, index, indication, learned, mark, marker, marking, pit, savant, score, seal, sign, smudge, stamp, symptom, tick, token, type), عالم (expert, hemisphere, kingdom, learned, lettered, province, universe, walk, world), طالب يتلقى إعانة, طالب (applicant, claim, demand, reclaim, school boy, schoolboy, student), اديب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стипендиант (bursar, exhibitioner), ученик (disciple, pupil, schoolboy, student), учен (academic, boffin, clerkly, erudite, learned, literate, man of science, sage, savant, scholastic, scientist, student), образован човек (literate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 文人 , 士 (knight, warrior), ' (Confucian), 學者 , 學家 , 学者 (scholastic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stipendista (exhibitioner, scholarship holder), uèenec (literati, pundit, student), odborník (expert, practitioner, professional, specialist), školák (pupil, schoolboy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | student (academic, holder of the Baccalaureate, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schooljongen (pupil), scholier (pupil), wetenschapper (scientist), geleerde (scientist), beursstudent (exhibitioner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | stipendiulo (exhibitioner), scienculo, lernejano (pupil), klerulo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محقق (Incontestable, Positive, Prober, Sure), اهل تتبع , ادیب (Bookman, Literary), شاگرممتاز, دانشور (Master), دانش پژوه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | savant (scholarly, scientist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schüler (disciple, disciples, follower, pupil, pupils, schoolboy, schoolboys, sophomore, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπουδαστήσ (student), μαθητήσ (disciple, learner, pupil, schoolboy), υπότροφοσ, φιλόλογοσ (greek master, philologist), λόγιοσ (bookish, lettered, literary, sapient, savant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | dijetar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | י"ען (connoisseur, erudite, expert, savant), למ"ן (erudite), תלמי" (disciple, pupil, student), איש אסכול", בעל מל'", בעל תור" (savant), סופר (author, scribe, teacher, writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ösztöndíjas (bursar, postmaster), tudós (clerkly, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, luminary, Pandit, pundit, savant, scholarly, scientist), tanuló (learner, prentice, pupil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sarjana (academic, academician), pelajar (learner, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erudito (erudite, learned, savant, scholarly, taught, well read), dotto (duct, learned, savant, scholarly, stone bass, versed, wreck bass, wreckfish), scolaro (pupil, schoolboy, schoolchild), allievo (cadet, learner, pupil, sophomore, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 碩' , 師' (teacher), 学者 , 学究 (student), 学'者 (student), 学問の' (student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がくしゃ (school), がくしゅうしゃ (student), がくも"のと (student), がっきゅう (grade in school, student), しじゅ (teacher), せきじゅ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 학자 (scholarly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynseydagh (cadet, didactic, disciple, instructive, learner, pupil), scollag (boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youth), schoillar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maori | aakonga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | student (academic, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olarschay sábio (learned, polymer, sagacious, sage, sapient, savant, scholarly, sensible, wise), letrado (blue, bookman, clerk, clerkly, deep read, erudition, lettered, literate), intelectual (abstract, cogitative, highchair, intellectual, intellectual property, mental exercise, noetic, notionalist), humanista (classic, humanist, humanitarian), estudioso (bookish, bookman, studious), erudito (deep read, enlightening, erudite, highbrow, learned, lettered, luminary, savant, scholarly, wise). (various references) student (academic, collegian, collegiate, fresher, freshman, matriculate, student, undergrad, undergraduate), savant (academic, erudite, expert, learned, pedantic, pedantry, savant, scholarly, scientist, skilfully, well informed, well read), umanist (humanist), persoanã care studiazã, om de ştiinţã (man of learning, scientist), intelectual (brain, high-brow, intellectual, mental, moral, spiritual), erudit (deeply read, erudite, learned, of vast reading, scholarly), discipol (disciple, follower, pupil), dascãl (Cantor, instructor, mentor, pedant, psalm reader, schoolmaster, teacher), cãrturar, bursier (bursar, exhibitioner, foundationer), şcolar (pupil, scholastic, school, schoolboy, student), învãţat (cultivated, educated, erudite, learned). (various references) ученый (boffin, bookish, bookman, learned, man of letters, man of science, pundit, savant, scholarly, scholars, sciential, scientific, scientist). (various references) sgoilear (man of learning, student), oileanach (student). (various references) stipendista (bursar, exhibitioner), učenjak (gownsman, literate, schoolmaster, school-master, scientist). (various references) erudito (donnish, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, learner, polymath, scholarly). (various references) lärjunge (apprentice, disciple, pupil). (various references) okumuş kimse, mektepli, edip (litterateur, man of letters), eğitimini almış kimse, burslu öğrenci (bursar, grantee, servitor), bilim adamı (man of learning, man of science, scientist), bilgin (bookman, erudite, learned, learned man, pundit, savant, scientist), bilge (erudite, learned, luminary, omniscient, owl, polymath, profound, sage, sophisticate, sophisticated, wise, wise person), alim (bookman, buying, erudite, knowing, learned, pundit, wise), alím (cultured, educated, learned, well-informed), öğrenci (disciple, learner, pupil, pupilar, pupilary, pupillar, pupillary, schoolboy, schoolgirl, student). (various references) стипендіат (bursar, sizar), учений (boffin, bookish, book-wise, highbrow, learned, savant, scholarly, scholastic), філолог-класик. (various references) uyên thâm (deep-read, profound, scholarly), uyên bác (erudite, erudition, scholarly), thông thái (learned, philosophic, philosophical, read, scholarly), nh thông thái (doctor, polyhistor, polymath), người có học thức, học rộng (erudite, scholarly), ghuôi ỉ. (various references) ysgolor, ysgolhaig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | filologum, philologus, scholasticus. (various references) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | payndita-s. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | scholaris. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | bocere, leornere. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | doctor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Chronicles Chapter 25, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ebalon kai autoi klhrouV efhmeriwn kata ton mikron kai kata ton megan teleiwn kai manqanontwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Miseruntque sortes per vices suas ex aequo tam maior quam minor doctus pariter et indoctus |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And selection was made of them for their special work, all having equal chances, small as well as great, the teacher as the learner. |
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| Language | 1 Chronicles Chapter 25, Verse 8 |
| Bulgarian | А те хвърлиха жребия за реда на служението си, малък и гялам, учител и ученик, наравно. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug sila nanagpapalad alang sa ilang mga katungdanan, ang tanan managsama, ang gagmay ingon man sa dagku, ang magtutudlo ingon man ang mga tinon-an. |
| Chinese | 這 些 人 無 論 大 小 、 為 師 的 、 為 ' 的 、 都 一 同 掣 籤 分 了 班 次 。 |
| Croatian | Bacili su ždrebove za svoju službenu dužnost, najmanji isto kao i najveæi, uèitelj kao i uèenik. |
| Danish | De kastede Lod om Ordningen af Tjenesten med lige Kår både for små og for store, Mestre og Lærlinge. |
| Dutch | En zij wierpen de loten over de wacht, tegen elkander, zo de kleinen, als de groten, den meester met den leerling. |
| Finnish | Ja he heittivät arpaa palvelusjärjestyksestä, nuoremmat niinkuin vanhemmatkin, taitajat yhdessä oppilasten kanssa. |
| French | Ils tirèrent au sort pour leurs fonctions, petits et grands, maîtres et disciples. |
| German | Und sie warfen das Los über ihre Ämter zugleich, dem Jüngeren wie dem Älteren, dem Lehrer wie dem Schüler. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Yo fè tout moun piye, gran kou piti, ni sa ki te fò nan fè mizik, ni sa ki te fèk konmanse aprann, pou yo te ka konnen lè pou yo fè travay yo nan sèvis la. |
| Hungarian | És sorsot vetének a szolgálat sorrendjére nézve, kicsiny és nagy, tanító és tanítvány egyaránt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Untuk menentukan giliran tugas, mereka semuanya menarik undi--baik yang muda maupun yang tua, baik yang berpengalaman maupun yang baru mulai belajar. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dibuangnya undi atas pekerjaan masing-masing, baik kecil baik besar baik guru baik murid. |
| Italian | Per i loro turni di servizio furono sorteggiati i piccoli come i grandi, i maestri come i discepoli. |
| Korean | 이 무 리 의 큰 자 나 작 은 자 나 스 승 이 나 자 를 무 하 일 례 로 비 뽑 아 직 임 을 얻 었 으 니 |
| Maori | ¶ I maka rota ano ratou mo ta ratou e tiaki ai, te iti, te rahi, te kaiwhakaako raua ko te akonga. |
| Norwegian | Og de kastet lodd om hvad de skulde ivareta, den minste så vel som den største, læreren så vel som lærlingen. |
| Portuguese | E determinaram os seus cargos por sortes, todos igualmente, tanto o pequeno como o grande, assim o mestre como o discípulo. |
| Rumanian | Au tras la sory pentru slujbele lor, mici wi mari, knvqyqtori wi ucenici. |
| Spanish | Echaron suertes para establecer los turnos del servicio, participando tanto el pequeño como el grande, lo mismo el maestro que el alumno. |
| Swedish | Och de kastade lott om tjänstgöringen, alla, den minste likasåväl som den störste, den kunnige jämte lärjungen. >1 Krön. 24,31 |
| Thai | เขาทั้งหลายจับสลากหน้าที่ของเขา ทั้งผู้น้อย ผู้ใหญ่ ครูและศิษย์ก็เหมือนกัน |
| Ukrainian | ¶ І кинули вони жеребки, черга відповідно черзі, як малий, так і великий, учитель з учнем. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scholar": scholarly, scholars, scholarship, scholarships. (additional references) | |
Words containing "scholar": unscholarly. (additional references) | |
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"Scholar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cholar, Schaal, Schaar, Schibler, Schirlcar, schla, Schlaf, schller, schlurp, schoal, Schoeller, schola, scholary, Schole, Scholem, scholia, Scholler, scholor, schooler, Schouler, schulen, scola, scolaire, scolar, scoler, shalwar, shofar, sholar, tschoval. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scholar" (pronounced skÄ"ler) |
| 4 | -k Ä" l er | collar. |
| 3 | -Ä" l er | dollar, holler, nondollar, squalor. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chorals. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-l-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: carols, choral, claros, corals, schorl. | |
-2 letters: calos, carls, carol, chaos, chars, claro, clash, coals, colas, coral, crash, halos, harls, hoars, horal, horas, larch, loach, lochs, orach, orals, orcas, roach, shoal, shorl, solar. | |
-3 letters: also, arch, arco, arcs, calo, carl, cars, cash, chao, char, coal, cola, cols, cors, cosh, halo, harl, hoar, hols, hora, lacs, lars, lash, loca, loch, oars, ocas, oral, orca, orcs, osar, rash, rhos, rocs, scar, soar, sola, sora. | |
-4 letters: als, arc, ars, ash, car, col, cor, cos, hao, has, lac, lar, las, oar, oca, ohs, ora, orc, ors, rah, ras, rho, roc, sac, sal, sha, sol. | |
-5 letters: ah, al, ar, as, ha, ho, la, lo, oh, or, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-l-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: chlorals, choleras, chorales, scholars. | |
+2 letters: acroliths, bachelors, calthrops, chaldrons, charcoals, charlocks, chelators, chlorates, chlordans, clochards, hairlocks, housecarl, oligarchs, scholarly, trochleas. | |
+3 letters: anchorless, archivolts, carbachols, charbroils, charlottes, chivalrous, chloracnes, chloralose, chlordanes, chlorellas, flowcharts, haircloths, historical, housecarls, isochronal, lachrymose, ochlocrats, orchestral, orthoclase, schoolmarm, schoolyard, synchronal, tracheoles, trochlears. | |
+4 letters: ahistorical, blackthorns, broadcloths, cardholders, chalkboards, chancellors, chloralosed, chloraloses, chloramines, chlorinates, chloroplast, chromoplast, chromosomal, clavichords, grapholects, halocarbons, hammerlocks, heptachlors, icosahedral, oligarchies, orthoclases, rhapsodical, scholarship, schoolmarms, schoolyards, spirochetal, thiouracils, thrasonical, unscholarly, workaholics. | |
+5 letters: accomplisher, archeologies, archeologist, archesporial, archipelagos, bachelordoms, cartoonishly, charbroilers, chaulmoogras, chivalrously, chlorinators, chloroplasts, chocolatiers, chromoplasts, cologarithms, coprophilias, elasmobranch, hemerocallis, historically, holophrastic, isochronally, lachrymators, lachrymosely, lachrymosity, lycanthropes, necrophilias, noncrushable, nonspherical, ochlocracies, orchestrally, oscillograph, overbleaches, parochialism, perchlorates, placeholders, rhabdocoeles, saccharoidal, scholarships, schoolmaster, synchronical, thalassocrat, unchivalrous, unhistorical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 6F 6C 61 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .... --- .-.. .- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h o l a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 006F 006C 0061 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53697481786784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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