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Sense: Adjective: relating to education

Synonyms:

scholastic, scholarly, school , learned , intellectual, educational , pedagogical, pedagogic, erudite, collegiate, college , lettered, bookish, ivory-tower (informal), graduate , postgraduate, teacherlike, professorial, university

Sense: Adjective: theoretical

Synonyms:

theoretical, formalistic, hypothetical, speculative, abstract , philosophical

Sense: Noun: scholar

Synonyms:

scholar , don (UK), student , intellectual, master , professor , lecturer , fellow , bookworm (informal), person of letters, speaker , teacher , tutor , researcher , research fellow, teaching fellow

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