SCHOLIAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scholiast mean? 

• SCHOLIAST (noun)
  The noun SCHOLIAST has 1 sense:

1. a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

  Familiarity information: SCHOLIAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOLIAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("scholiast" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scholiast"):

glossarist (a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries)