scholar vs postdoc

postdoc vs scholar

scholar and postdoc both are nouns.

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

As nouns, postdoc is a hyponym of scholar; that is, postdoc 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
postdoc: a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree

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, bookworm, pedant, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, post doc, 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)	postdoc (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs	a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research
a student who holds a scholarship

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