What is "community of scholars"

Usage examples of "community of scholars".

But the abbey is first and foremost a community of scholars, and often it is useful for monks to exchange the accumulated treasures of their learning.

He lives in that small community of scholars that in the last century or so.

This community of scholars, he was convinced, however, was engaged in studies far more profound than the often petty research that filled the lives of the professors at those exalted institutions.