scholar vs reader

reader vs scholar

scholar and reader both are nouns.

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

As nouns, reader is a hyponym of scholar; that is, reader 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
reader: a person who enjoys reading

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, postdoc, 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)	reader (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	one of a series of texts for students learning to read
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs	a person who enjoys reading
a student who holds a scholarship	a public lecturer at certain universities
	someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
	a person who can read; a literate person
	someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
	someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
	someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

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