scholars

/S K AA1 L ER0 Z/
noun
  1. 1

    A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

  2. 2

    A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

  3. 3

    A learned person; a bookman.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scholar, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scholars