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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 schol·ar /ˈskɑlɚ/
 學者,公費生,有文化者,學習者

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Schol·ar n.
 1. One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
    I am no breeching scholar in the schools.   --Shak.
 2. One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
 3. A man of books.
 4. In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
 Syn: -- Pupil; learner; disciple.
 Usage: Scholar, Pupil. Scholar refers to the instruction, and pupil to the care and government, of a teacher. A scholar is one who is under instruction; a pupil is one who is under the immediate and personal care of an instructor; hence we speak of a bright scholar, and an obedient pupil.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 scholar
      n 1: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who
           by long study has gained mastery in one or more
           disciplines [syn: scholarly person, student]
      2: someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher)
         or takes up knowledge or beliefs [syn: learner, assimilator]
      3: a student who holds a scholarship