English > student: 2 senses > noun 1, person Meaning | A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution. |
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Synonyms | pupil, educatee |
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Member of | teacher-student relation | The academic relation between teachers and their students |
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Narrower | Etonian | A student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College |
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Ivy Leaguer | A student or graduate at an Ivy League school |
Wykehamist | A student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College |
art student | someone studying to be an artist |
auditor | A student who attends a course but does not take it for credit |
catechumen, neophyte | A new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist |
collegian, college man, college boy | A student (or former student) at a college or university / university |
crammer | A student who crams |
law student | A student in law school |
major | A university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject |
medical student, medico | A student in medical school |
nonreader | A student who is very slow in learning to read |
overachiever | A student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated |
passer | A student who passes an examination |
scholar | A student who holds a scholarship |
seminarian, seminarist | A student at a seminary / seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary / seminary) |
sixth-former | A student in the sixth form |
skipper | A student who fails to attend classes |
underachiever, underperformer, nonachiever | A student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates |
withdrawer | A student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled |
Broader | enrollee | A person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study |
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Spanish | alumna, alumno, educando, estudiante, pupila, pupilo |
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Catalan | alumna, alumne, estudianta, estudiant, pupil |
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Nouns | studentship | the position of student |
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Verbs | study | be a student |
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English > student: 2 senses > noun 2, person Meaning | A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines. |
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Synonyms | scholar, scholarly person, bookman |
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Instances | Crichton, James Crichton, The Admirable Crichton | Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582) |
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Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent | Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492) |
Malone, Edmund Malone, Edmond Malone | English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812) |
Varro, Marcus Terentius Varro | Roman scholar (116-27 BC) |
Narrower | Arabist | A scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture |
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Cabalist, Kabbalist | A student of the Jewish Kabbalah |
Islamist | A scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studies |
Masorete, Massorete, Masorite | A scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah) |
Renaissance man | A scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics |
Renaissance man, generalist | A modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests |
Schoolman, medieval Schoolman | A scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages |
Shakespearian, Shakespearean | A Shakespearean scholar |
Sinologist | A student of Chinese history and language and culture |
Vedist | A scholar of or an authority on the Vedas |
academician, schoolman | A scholar who is skilled in academic disputation |
alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad | A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university / university) |
bibliographer | someone trained in compiling bibliographies |
bibliophile, booklover, book lover | someone who loves (and usually collects) books |
doctor, Dr. | A person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution |
goliard | A wandering scholar in medieval Europe |
historian, historiographer | A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it |
humanist | A classical scholar or student of the liberal arts |
initiate, learned person, pundit, savant | someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field |
licentiate | holds a license (degree) from a (European) university / university |
master | someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution |
mujtihad | An Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts |
musicologist | A student / student of musicology |
pedant, bookworm, scholastic | A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit |
philomath | A lover of learning |
philosopher | A specialist in philosophy |
postdoc, post doc | A scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree |
reader | A person who enjoys / enjoys / enjoys reading |
salutatorian, salutatory speaker | A graduating student with the second highest academic rank |
scholiast | A scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) |
theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser | someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology |
valedictorian, valedictory speaker | The student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement |
Broader | intellectual, intellect | A person who uses the mind creatively |
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Spanish | docto, erudito, especialista, estudiante, estudioso, sabio |
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Catalan | erudit, estudiant, estudiós |
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Nouns | studentship | the position of student |
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