scholar vs scholiast

scholiast vs scholar

scholar and scholiast both are nouns.

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

As nouns, scholiast is a hyponym of scholar; that is, scholiast 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
scholiast: a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

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, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, Renaissance man, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholar (noun)	scholiast (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)
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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