scholarly person vs alum

alum vs scholarly person

scholarly person and alum both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scholarly person	Yes	No	No	No
alum	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, alum is a hyponym of scholarly person; that is, alum is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scholarly person:

scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
alum: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Other hyponyms of scholarly person include academician, schoolman, 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, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholarly person (noun)	alum (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)
	a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum
	a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
	a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Difference between scholarly person and alum

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.