Scholar vs. Expert — What's the Difference?

A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly those that develop expertise in an area of study. A scholar may also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher or researcher at a university or other higher education institution.

An expert is somebody who has a broad and deep competence in terms of knowledge, skill and experience through practice and education in a particular field. Informally, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.

A learned person.

A person with a high degree of skill in or knowledge of a certain subject.

A specialist in a given branch of knowledge

Having, involving, or demonstrating skill in or knowledge of a certain subject.

One who attends school or studies with a teacher; a student.

Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.

A student who holds or has held a particular scholarship.

Characteristic of an expert.

A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

(obsolete) Proven, experienced, veteran.

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.

A learned person; a bookman.

(chess) A player ranking just below master.

(Singapore) someone who received a prestigious scholarship

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.

A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

A man of books.

A sworn appraiser.

In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

To experience.

A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

A person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;

A student who holds a scholarship