Expert and Scholar

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Expert noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.

Usage example: experts at the crime lab were able to tell the sex, race, and approximate age of the murderer

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Scholar is a synonym for expert. In some cases you can use "Scholar" instead a noun "Expert".

Nearby Words: experience, expertise, expertly, expertised

Scholar noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.

Usage example: a scholar who is a specialist in the history of ancient Greece

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Expert is a synonym for scholar in authority topic. You can use "Expert" instead a noun "Scholar".

old	old expert	old scholar
female	female expert	female scholar
legal	legal expert	legal scholar
top	top expert	top scholar
Other adjectives: brilliant, capable, renowned, respected, famous, professional, major, religious, dedicated, political, military, occult, foremost, local, noted, elderly.

The Professor: He's an expert on rune magic, but dislikes the term "wizard" and refers to himself as a "magic rune scholar".

Source: Characters / Suikoden V
Nerd: Alise is a self-made scholar and dragon expert.

Source: Literature / Realm of the Elderlings
Department of Redundancy Department: This line from Marty Walker, the film scholar:"I happen to be a self-proclaimed Marx Brothers expert, if I say so myself." Even Evil Has Loved Ones: It's clear by the end of the movie just how much the Firefly family loves one another.

Source: Film / The Devil's Rejects

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