licentiate vs scholar

licentiate and scholar both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
licentiate	Yes	No	No	No
scholar	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholar is a hypernym of licentiate; that is, scholar is a word with a broader meaning than licentiate:

licentiate: holds a license (degree) from a (European) university
scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of licentiate include bookman, scholarly person.

licentiate (noun)	scholar (noun)
holds a license (degree) from a (European) university	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
	a student who holds a scholarship