scholar

scholar is a Noun

Definition:

[1] One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student. I am no breeching scholar in the schools. Shak.

[2] One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.

[3] A man of books. Bacon.

[4] In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.