student
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstjuː.dn̩t/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈst͡ʃuː.dn̩t/
note: yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈstu.dn̩t/
ipa: /ˈstɪʊ.dənt/
rhymes: -uːdənt
Forms: form: students
Etymology: From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin studēns, present participle of studeō (“dedicate oneself to, study”). Equivalent to study + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: She is a student of human interactions.
text: He is a student of life.
text: I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor leane enough to bee thought a good Studient : but to be ſaid an honeſt man and a good houſkeeper goes as fairely, as to ſay, a carefull man, & a great ſcholler. The Competitors enter.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 271, column 1:
text: The student of marine life in Southern California should become aware that […] a great many changes have taken place during the past century that have modified the characters of the plant and animal communities of the seashore.
ref: 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 6:
synonyms: candlewaster
scholar
devotee
disciple
glosses: A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
examples: text: The students were out raising funds for rag week.
text: In general, alſo, it may be obſerved, that a greater degree of gentility is affixed to the character of a ſtudent in England than elſewhere ; by which means our clergy have an opportunity of ſeeing better company while young, and of ſooner wearing off thoſe prejudices which they are apt to imbibe even in the beſt regulated univerſities, and which may be juſtly termed the vulgar errors of the wiſe.
ref: a. 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, “Essay XII”, in The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith, volume III, Edinburgh: Geo. Mudie, published 1792, page 71:
text: In behalf of manhood and common sense, he would protest against such a conclusion ; and if any pale student, glued to his desk here, seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruit is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written.
ref: 1868, Charles Haight Farnham, quoting Francis Parkman, Autobiography, quoted in “Spiritual Growth”, in A Life of Francis Parkman, Toronto: George N. Morang and Company, published 1900, page 321:
text: A handful of young students bent on showing their patriotism had stirred up more trouble than they possibly could have imagined.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:
glosses: A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
glosses: 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).
raw_tags: in particular
Derived terms: antistudent
art student
A student
cyberstudent
exchange student
grad student
graduate student
graduate student descent
high school student
honor student
international student
legacy student
mature-age student
mature student
medical student
middle school student
mud student
multistudent
nonstudent
non-traditional student
nontraditional student
parent-teacher-student association
primary school student
professional student
studency
student affairs
student-athlete
student body
student council
student driver
studentese
studentess
student ghetto
studenthood
student hour
studential
studentification
studentish
studentization
studentized
studentizing
studentless
studentlike
student loan
studently
student nation
student number
studentry
studentship
student strike
student syndrome
student teacher
student union
student voice
studenty
tertiary student
traditional student
transfer student
Related terms: learner