adj
Meaning 1
In training, learning a particular skill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- student teacher.
- student driver.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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adj
In training, learning a particular skill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Clipping of Student's.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: candlewaster, scholar, devotee, disciple
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person, bookman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intellectual, intellect
Narrower terms: academician, schoolman, alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, booklover, book lover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Massorete, Masorite, master, mujtihad, musicologist, pedant, bookworm, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, postdoc, post doc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Shakespearian, Shakespearean, Sinologist, theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist, Crichton, James Crichton, The Admirable Crichton, Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Malone, Edmund Malone, Edmond Malone, Varro, Marcus Terentius Varro
noun
a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: pupil, educatee
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: enrollee
Narrower terms: art student, auditor, catechumen, neophyte, collegian, college man, college boy, crammer, Etonian, Ivy Leaguer, law student, major, medical student, medico, nonreader, overachiever, passer, scholar, seminarian, seminarist, sixth-former, skipper, underachiever, underperformer, nonachiever, withdrawer, Wykehamist
History
From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin studēns, present participle of studeō (“dedicate oneself to, study”). Equivalent to stud(y) + -ent.
From the pen-name of Irish statistician William Sealy Gosset.
Across languages
453 source translations are retained for this English entry.