Scholar vs Intellectual - What's the difference?
scholar | intellectual |
A student; one who studies at school or college.
A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
A learned person; a bookman.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
(archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
* 1805 , William Wordsworth, The Prelude , Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
As nouns the difference between scholar and intellectual
is that scholar is a student; one who studies at school or college while intellectual is an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.As an adjective intellectual is
belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.scholar
English
(Scholarly method)Noun
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Derived terms
* independent scholar * scholarly * scholarshipSee also
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Alternative forms
* intellectuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life ...