がくしゃ
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. scholar
Pitch accent
くしゃ
Composed of
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
Used in vocabulary (80 in total)
philosopher
tactician; strategist
scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters; writer
mathematician
archeologist; archaeologist
Sinologist; scholar of the Chinese classics
scholar of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture
scientist
visitor (to a factory, school, lab., etc.)
medical scientist
scholarly bent of mind
Confucian scholar
great scholar; savant; polymath
anthropologist; ethnologist
meteorologist; climatologist; aerologist
political scientist
Buddhist scholar; Buddhologist
historian
pharmacologist
Taoist; moralist
agricultural scientist; agronomist; agriculturist
to be pedantic; to assume the air of a scholar
person who is book smart but lacking in common sense; person who is book smart but street dumb
person who is book smart but lacking in common sense; person who is book smart but street dumb
scholar beholden to the government; self-serving academic; scholar who toadies up to government authorities
constitutional scholar (lawyer); expert in constitutional law
classicist; classical scholar
linguist; language expert
rabbi; scribe (Biblical)
person of extensive learning; well-read person; polymath
pharmacologist
military scholar; military writer
Japanologist; Japan scholar
pseudo-scholar; fake scholar; would-be expert
brain physiologist
Japanese language specialist; linguist specializing in Japanese
good scholars are seldom rich
futurist; futurologist
Examples (31 in total)
He is something of a scholar.
He is a writer rather than a scholar.
He is at best a second-rate scholar.