1. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
2. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
3. Pertaining to academy; learned; unpractical.

One who researches; an investigator in the sciences or humanities.

ETYM Old Eng. scoler, as. scôlere, from Latin scholaris belonging to a school, from schola a school. Related to School.
1. A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines; SYN. scholarly person, student.
2. A student who holds a scholarship.

ETYM Recent.
A person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences; SYN. man of science.