Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of scholarship: synonym: learned.
- adjective Having or showing a strong interest in scholarship or learning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or denoting a scholar; characterized by scholarship; learned; befitting a scholar: as, a scholarly man; scholarly attainments; scholarly habits.
- Synonyms Learned, Scholarly. See
learned and studious. - In the manner of a scholar; as becomes a scholar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or relating to
scholars orscholarship
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characteristic of scholars or scholarship
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Examples
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Christopher L. Peterson, a law professor at the University of Utah who has criticized the record-keeping company's business model in scholarly articles, says the foreclosure furor is a serious challenge to MERS because the documentation problems show the company is doing an end run around hundreds of years of American property law.
Lawmaker Questions Power to Foreclose Robbie Whelan 2010
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The growing trend in scholarly publishing, particularly in the natural sciences and health, is to eschew exclusive copyright protection in favor of a model that permits widespread and instantaneous publication.
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Literature as academic study is covered in scholarly fashion; literature as enjoyment, as intellectual stimulation, as a dance of words, is sadly absent.
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It may be that the "indulgent inclinations" really do need to be indulged outside the classroom and elsewhere than in scholarly journals.
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He specialized both in scholarly editions of classic authors, and English literature, Malthus, Boswell, Johnson, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Isaac Walton.
Publisher William Pickering: The First to Use Cloth Bindings? 2009
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He specialized both in scholarly editions of classic authors, and English literature, Malthus, Boswell, Johnson, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Isaac Walton.
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More temporary faculty means less access to tenured faculty engaged in scholarly activity.
Strike Ends At York But Not Without Concerns About Adjunct Faculty 2009
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More temporary faculty means less access to tenured faculty engaged in scholarly activity.
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I would love to be able to express my missing-meta-maxime in scholarly terms .. because it seems to me there is something to be formalised in this direction ….
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Literature as academic study is covered in scholarly fashion; literature as enjoyment, as intellectual stimulation, as a dance of words, is sadly absent.
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