classical scholar

collocation in English

meaningsofclassicalandscholar

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classical
adjective
uk
/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/
traditional in style or form, or based on methods developed over a long period of time, and considered to be of ...
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scholar
noun[C]
uk
/ˈskɒl.ər/us
/ˈskɑː.lɚ/
a person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at ...
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(Definition ofclassicalandscholarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofclassical scholar

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Should this opuscule by a man who was also aclassicalscholar, archaeologist, and art historian be rescued from the oblivion of two centuries?
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He saw himself primarily as aclassicalscholarand a monk, not as a theologian.
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He was an all-round,classicalscholarof zoology and could teach any aspect of the subject.
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First, much of his own work, both as aclassicalscholarand as a philosopher, relies on a fair amount of strictly speaking historical sources-more so than he himself admits.
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I do not care what his background or initial education was; whether he set out to be aclassicalscholaror a physicist.
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My correspondent is himself a greatclassicalscholar.
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He is aclassicalscholar, not an economist.
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One would therefore have assumed it to have been sponsored by a greatclassicalscholar; but not a bit of it.
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I go back to the great days when one could accept an openclassicalscholarto read for an engineering course.
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And an oldclassicalscholarsaid that it was not so much the quality of the epithets which were showered on him as their quantity.
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He was a highly finishedclassicalscholar.
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I find theclassicalscholarand the student in the departments of textile industries or chemical engineering are equally convinced about the breadth of their investigations.
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To theclassicalscholarthe metre alone is of interest.
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Beaven was an accomplishedclassicalscholarand wrote a number of books.
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Badham was also a translator, aclassicalscholar, and a devoted traveller.
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Lefebvre was a highly cultivated man and a thoroughclassicalscholar.
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Hutton was a strict disciplinarian, a theologian andclassicalscholar, a good mathematician, an able preacher.
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A man of many talents, he was also aclassicalscholar, musician, linguist, inventor, writer and artist.
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Aclassicalscholar, he taught humanities and rhetoric with success.
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Besides having a special knowledge of chemistry he was an accomplishedclassicalscholar, and also excelled in mathematics and mechanics.
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