scholar

n. student, pupil; learned person, educated person; expert in a particular field; recipient of a scholarship

Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athene, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe".By extension Academia has come to connote the cultural accumulation of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning. The English adopted the form academy while the French adopted the forms acadème and académie.
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Noun
1. a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
(synonym) scholarly person, student
(hypernym) intellectual, intellect
(hyponym) academician, schoolman
2. someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
(synonym) learner, assimilator
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
(hyponym) memorizer, memoriser
3. a student who holds a scholarship
(hypernym) student, pupil, educatee
(hyponym) Rhodes scholar

n. scholar, student, pupil; learned person, educated person

(n.)
One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
  

(n.)
One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
  

(n.)
In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
  

(n.)
A man of books.