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Scholar

Definitions: Scholar

Scholar

Noun

1. 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)



Specialty Definitions: Scholar

DomainDefinitions

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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Specialty Definition: Scholar

(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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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scholar."

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Synonyms: Scholar

Synonyms: assimilator (n), learner (n), scholarly person (n), student (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Scholar

ContextSynonyms 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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Crosswords: Scholar

English words defined with "scholar": academician, ArabistBaeda, Beda, Bede, Benjamin Jowett, Biblist, BookmanChinese scholar tree, classical scholarDesiderius Erasmus, distinctionEdmond Malone, Edmund Malone, eminence, Erasmusfamulus, Friedrich August WolfGeert Geerts, generalist, George Gilbert Aime Murphy, Gerhard Gerhards, Gilbert Murray, glorious, goliardHalf boarder, humanistillustriousJowett, juristlegal expert, Lorenzo de Medici, Lorenzo the MagnificentMaimonides, Malone, Marcus Terentius Varro, medieval Schoolman, Montem, Moses Maimonides, MurraynoteOppidanPhilomath, Portionist, preeminence, PrepositorRabbi Moses Ben Maimon, Ramist, redoubtable, Renaissance man, respected, Rhodes scholarSaint Baeda, Saint Beda, Saint Bede, Schoolman, St Baeda, St Beda, St BedeTabarder, the Venerable Bede, To be on a foundationVarrowolf. (references)
Specialty definitions using "scholar": Bardo de Bardi, Beauclerc, Bedfordshire, Best, Better, bootlegbooksContemptible, ContemptuousDemy', Dominie SampsonMisnomersNear, NearlyPretty, PupilRashleigh OsbaldistoneSampson, Stephen KleeneVery. (references)

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Modern Usage: Scholar

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Scholar

DomainTitle

Books

  • Information Retrieval: Scifinder and Scifinder Scholar (reference)

  • Matthew B. Ridgeway: Soldier, Statesman, Scholar, Citizen (reference)

  • The Literati Mode: Chinese Scholar Paintings, Calligraphy and Desk Objects (reference)

  • The Spell-Bound Scholar (The Warlock Series) (reference)

  • Third Grade Scholar (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Scholar

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Scholar

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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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Familiar Quotations: Scholar

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Scholar

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It has a constant and imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Scholar

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Usage Frequency: Scholar

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.86%7039,512
Noun (proper)0.14%1339,140
                    Total100.00%704N/A

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

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Expressions: Scholar

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.

Hyphenated Usage

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scholar

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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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Modern Translations: Scholar

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 , (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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

ученый (boffin, bookish, bookman, learned, man of letters, man of science, pundit, savant, scholarly, scholars, sciential, scientific, scientist). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sgoilear (man of learning, student), oileanach (student). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stipendista (bursar, exhibitioner), učenjak (gownsman, literate, schoolmaster, school-master, scientist). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

erudito (donnish, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, learner, polymath, scholarly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lärjunge (apprentice, disciple, pupil). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

стипендіат (bursar, sizar), учений (boffin, bookish, book-wise, highbrow, learned, savant, scholarly, scholastic), філолог-класик. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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)

   

Welsh

  

ysgolor, ysgolhaig. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Scholar

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

filologum, philologus, scholasticus. (various references)

Sanskrit300 BCE-Modern

payndita-s. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

scholaris. (various references)

Old English450-1100

bocere, leornere. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

doctor. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Scholar

LanguageDateSource1 Chronicles Chapter 25, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai ebalon kai autoi klhrouV efhmeriwn kata ton mikron kai kata ton megan teleiwn kai manqanontwn
Latin405VulgateMiseruntque sortes per vices suas ex aequo tam maior quam minor doctus pariter et indoctus
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd 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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Matched Bible Translations: Scholar

Language1 Chronicles Chapter 25, Verse 8
BulgarianА 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 。
CroatianBacili su ždrebove za svoju službenu dužnost, najmanji isto kao i najveæi, uèitelj kao i uèenik.
DanishDe kastede Lod om Ordningen af Tjenesten med lige Kår både for små og for store, Mestre og Lærlinge.
DutchEn zij wierpen de loten over de wacht, tegen elkander, zo de kleinen, als de groten, den meester met den leerling.
FinnishJa he heittivät arpaa palvelusjärjestyksestä, nuoremmat niinkuin vanhemmatkin, taitajat yhdessä oppilasten kanssa.
FrenchIls tirèrent au sort pour leurs fonctions, petits et grands, maîtres et disciples.
GermanUnd 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.
HungarianÉs sorsot vetének a szolgálat sorrendjére nézve, kicsiny és nagy, tanító és tanítvány egyaránt.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariUntuk menentukan giliran tugas, mereka semuanya menarik undi--baik yang muda maupun yang tua, baik yang berpengalaman maupun yang baru mulai belajar.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka dibuangnya undi atas pekerjaan masing-masing, baik kecil baik besar baik guru baik murid.
ItalianPer i loro turni di servizio furono sorteggiati i piccoli come i grandi, i maestri come i discepoli.
Korean이 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.
NorwegianOg de kastet lodd om hvad de skulde ivareta, den minste så vel som den største, læreren så vel som lærlingen.
PortugueseE determinaram os seus cargos por sortes, todos igualmente, tanto o pequeno como o grande, assim o mestre como o discípulo.   
RumanianAu tras la sory pentru slujbele lor, mici wi mari, knvqyqtori wi ucenici.
SpanishEcharon suertes para establecer los turnos del servicio, participando tanto el pequeño como el grande, lo mismo el maestro que el alumno.
SwedishOch de kastade lott om tjänstgöringen, alla, den minste likasåväl som den störste, den kunnige jämte lärjungen. >1 Krön. 24,31
Thaiเขาทั้งหลายจับสลากหน้าที่ของเขา ทั้งผู้น้อย ผู้ใหญ่ ครูและศิษย์ก็เหมือนกัน
Ukrainian¶ І кинули вони жеребки, черга відповідно черзі, як малий, так і великий, учитель з учнем.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Scholar

Derivations

Words beginning with "scholar": scholarly, scholars, scholarship, scholarships. (additional references)

Words containing "scholar": unscholarly. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Scholar"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "scholar" (pronounced skÄ"ler)
4-k Ä" l ercollar.
3-Ä" l erdollar, holler, nondollar, squalor.

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Anagrams: Scholar

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Scholar


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

53 63 68 6F 6C 61 72

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 01101100 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#108 &#97 &#114

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)

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

53697481786784

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INDEX

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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