scholar vs alum

alum vs scholar

scholar and alum both are nouns.

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

As nouns, alum is a hyponym of scholar; that is, alum is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scholar:

scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
alum: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Other hyponyms of scholar include academician, schoolman, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, master, mujtihad, musicologist, bookworm, pedant, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, post doc, postdoc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, Renaissance man, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholar (noun)	alum (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs	a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum
a student who holds a scholarship	a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
	a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

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