Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scientist \Sci"en*tist\, n.
   One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one
   devoted to scientific study; a savant. [Recent]

   Note: Twenty years ago I ventured to propose one [a name for
         the class of men who give their lives to scientific
         study] which has been slowly finding its way to general
         adoption; and the word scientist, though scarcely
         euphonious, has gradually assumed its place in our
         vocabulary. --B. A. Gould (Address, 1869).

Source : WordNet®

scientist
     n : a person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences
         [syn: {man of science}]