scholar vs valedictorian

valedictorian vs scholar

scholar and valedictorian both are nouns.

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

As nouns, valedictorian is a hyponym of scholar; that is, valedictorian 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
valedictorian: the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement

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, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholar (noun)	valedictorian (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement
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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