がくしゃ
Meanings
Noun
1. scholar; academic; scientist
2. learned person; person of learning
Pitch accent
が
くしゃ
Composed of
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
Used in vocabulary (94 in total)
mathematician
scientist
philosopher
scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters; writer
visitor (to a factory, school, lab., etc.)
archeologist; archaeologist
medical scientist
scholarly bent of mind
jurist; lawyer; legal scholar
Confucian scholar; Confucianist
great scholar; savant; polymath
naturalist; natural historian
scholar of Western sciences (by means of the Dutch language; during the Edo period); rangaku scholar
Sinologist; scholar of the Chinese classics
anthropologist; ethnologist
meteorologist; climatologist; aerologist
tactician; strategist
political scientist
Buddhist scholar; Buddhologist
historian
pharmacologist
Taoist; moralist
to be pedantic; to assume the air of a scholar
agricultural scientist; agronomist; agriculturist
natural scientist; philosopher
learned fool; person who is book smart but lacking in common sense
scholar beholden to the government; self-serving academic; scholar who toadies up to government authorities
constitutional scholar (lawyer); expert in constitutional law
classicist; classical scholar
linguist; language expert
rabbi; scribe (Biblical)
person of extensive learning; well-read person; polymath
pharmacologist
military scholar; military writer
scholar of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture
Japanologist; Japan scholar
pseudo-scholar; fake scholar; would-be expert
brain physiologist
Japanese language specialist; linguist specializing in Japanese
good scholars are seldom rich
futurist; futurologist
volcanologist; vulcanologist
osteologist
climatologist
Examples (30 in total)
He is something of a scholar.
He is a writer rather than a scholar.
He is at best a second-rate scholar.