learner

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

learner
    n 1: someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher)
         or takes up knowledge or beliefs [syn: {learner},
         {scholar}, {assimilator}]
    2: works for an expert to learn a trade [syn: {apprentice},
       {learner}, {prentice}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Learner \Learn"er\, n.
   One who learns; a scholar.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "learner":
      abecedarian, apprentice, auditor, autodidact, baby, beginner,
      catechumen, deb, debutant, educatee, entrant, fledgling, freshman,
      greenhorn, greeny, infant, initiate, inquirer, monitor, neophyte,
      nestling, newcomer, novice, novitiate, praepostor, prefect,
      probationer, pupil, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, scholar,
      self-taught person, student, studier, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro

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