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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