Scholar vs. Fellow — 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.

A fellow is a broad concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.

A learned person.

A man or boy.

A specialist in a given branch of knowledge

(Informal) A boyfriend.

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

A comrade or associate.

A student who holds or has held a particular scholarship.

A person of equal rank, position, or background; a peer.

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

One of a pair; a mate

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

A member of a learned society or professional organization.

A learned person; a bookman.

A graduate student appointed to a position granting financial aid and providing for further study.

(Singapore) someone who received a prestigious scholarship

A physician who enters a training program in a medical specialty after completing residency, usually in a hospital or academic setting.

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 incorporated senior member of certain colleges and universities.

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 member of the governing body of certain colleges and universities.

A man of books.

(Archaic) A man or boy held in low regard.

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

Being of the same kind, group, occupation, society, or locality; having in common certain characteristics or interests

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

A companion; a comrade.

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

An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.

A student who holds a scholarship

An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.

A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.

(chiefly in the negative) A person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing.

One in the same condition, or situation of need, as another.

Often in the form Fellow: academic senses.

Originally, one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; now, a senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution.

An honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person (often an alumna or alumnus).

A (senior) member of a learned or professional society.

A scholar appointed to a fellowship, that is, a paid academic position held for a certain period which usually requires the scholar to conduct research.

A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training program).

(US) A member of a college or university who manages its business interests.

(US) A senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development.

(informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.

(rare) Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.

An animal or object.

(archaic)

One of a pair of things suited to each other or used together; a counterpart, a mate.

(Australian Aboriginal) fella

(obsolete)

A colleague or partner.

A close companion or friend; also, a companion or friend whom one eats or drinks with.

Followed by of: one who participates in an activity; a participant.

A man without good breeding or of lower social status; a common or ignoble man; also, used as a polite term of address to such a person.

A person's servant or slave.

(derogatory) A worthless person; a churl, a knave; also, used as a term of address to a person regarded as such.

Synonym of schoolmate

A black man.

(transitive)

(archaic) To address (someone) as "fellow", especially in an insulting manner (see noun sense 10.6).

To equal (someone or something); also, to cause or find someone or something to be equal to (some other person or thing).

(obsolete)

Followed by with: to associate or join with a person or thing in companionship or a partnership.

A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.

A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.

An equal in power, rank, character, etc.

One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.

A person; an individual.

In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.

In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.

A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.

To suit with; to pair with; to match.

A boy or man;

A person who is frequently in the company of another;

A person who is member of your class or profession;

An informal form of address for a man;

A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman;