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scholar vs savant

savant vs scholar

scholar and savant both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
scholar Yes No No No
savant Yes No No No
As nouns, savant is a hyponym of scholar; that is, savant 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
  • savant: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
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, 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) savant (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
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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