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
[Fr.], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It]; fellow,
Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi†, Sanskritish; sinologist,
sinologue†; Mezzofanti†, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.
bookworm, helluo librorum [Lat.]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac†;
bluestocking, bas-bleu [Fr.]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium
Baccalaureus [Lat.], Artium Magister [Lat.].
learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum [Lat.]; man of
learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius.
antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.
sage &c (wise man) 500.
pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr.
Pangloss; pantologist†, criminologist.
schoolboy &c (learner) 541.
Adj. learned &c 490; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.
Phr. he was a scholar and a ripe and good one [Henry VIII]; the
manifold linguist [All's Well That Ends Well].