Scholar vs Leisure - What's the difference?
scholar | leisure |
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= Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
Time free from work or duties.
* Sir W. Temple
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 11
* 1908 , William David Ross (translator), Aristotle,
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between scholar and leisure
is that scholar is a student; one who studies at school or college while leisure is freedom provided by the cessation of activities.scholar
English
(Scholarly method)Noun
(en noun)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
Derived terms
* independent scholar * scholarly * scholarshipSee also
* savantExternal links
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*leisure
English
Noun
- The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
- Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
- This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure .
- He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.
