noun (n)

• someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  initiate, learned person, savant
  

  source: wordnet30
• A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.(noun)

  source: webster1913