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SCHOOLMAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

Synonyms:

academician; schoolman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("schoolman" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism

Synonyms:

medieval Schoolman; Schoolman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Schoolman" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

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