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scholar vs historian

historian vs scholar

scholar and historian both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
scholar Yes No No No
historian Yes No No No
As nouns, historian is a hyponym of scholar; that is, historian 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
  • historian: a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
Other hyponyms of scholar include academician, schoolman, alum, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, 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) historian (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
a student who holds a scholarship
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