SCHOOLMAN

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• SCHOOLMAN (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLMAN has 2 senses:

1. a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism

2. a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

  Familiarity information: SCHOOLMAN used as a noun is rare.

• SCHOOLMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

medieval Schoolman; Schoolman

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 who is skilled in academic disputation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

academician; schoolman

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)

 Context examples 

I have read Ockham, Bradwardine, and other of the schoolmen, together with the learned Duns Scotus and the book of the holy Aquinas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)