scholar vs bookworm

bookworm vs scholar

scholar and bookworm both are nouns.

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

As nouns, bookworm is a hyponym of scholar; that is, bookworm 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
bookworm: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Other hyponyms of scholar include academician, schoolman, alum, 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, 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)	bookworm (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	someone who spends a great deal of time reading
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs	a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
a student who holds a scholarship

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