scholar vs doctor

doctor vs scholar

scholar and doctor both are nouns.

scholar is not a verb while doctor is a verb.

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

As nouns, doctor is a hyponym of scholar; that is, doctor 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
doctor: a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution

Other hyponyms of scholar include academician, schoolman, alum, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, 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)	doctor (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs	a licensed medical practitioner
a student who holds a scholarship	a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution

scholar (verb)	doctor (verb)
	give medical treatment to
	alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
	restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

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