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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 school·man /ˈskulmən, ˌmæn/
 教授,煩瑣哲學家,學校教師

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 School·man n.; pl. Schoolmen  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
 Note: ☞ The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and abstract speculation. They were so called because they taught in the mediaeval universities and schools of divinity.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Schoolman
      n 1: a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages;
           versed in scholasticism [syn: medieval Schoolman]
      2: a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation [syn: academician]