Student
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Student \Stu"dent\, n. [L. studens, -entis, p. pr. of studere to
study. See {Study}, n.]
1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning;
a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends
a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional
teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a
college, or a university; a medical student; a hard
student.
[1913 Webster]
Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student
from his book. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive
and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or
of physical nature.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "student":
academician, admirer, apprentice, bookman, classicist, clerk,
colossus of knowledge, commentator, critic, devotee, disciple,
evaluator, follower, genius, giant of learning, grind, humanist,
learned clerk, learned man, learner, literary man, litterateur,
lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind,
mine of information, observer, philologist, philologue, philomath,
philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, pupil,
savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolboy, schoolgirl, schoolman,
swat, swot, swotter, trainee, undergraduate,
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