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student

[ stood-nt, styood- ]

noun

  1. a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil:

    a student at Yale.

  2. any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully:

    a student of human nature.



student

/ ˈstjuːdənt /

noun

    1. a person following a course of study, as in a school, college, university, etc
    2. ( as modifier )

      student teacher

  1. a person who makes a thorough study of a subject


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Pronunciation Note

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Other Words From

  • student·less adjective
  • student·like adjective
  • anti·student noun adjective
  • non·student noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of student1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin student- (stem of studēns ), present participle of studēre “to take pains”; -ent; replacing Middle English studiant, aphetic variant of estudiant, from Old French, noun use of present participle of estudier “to devote oneself to, study” ( study

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Word History and Origins

Origin of student1

C15: from Latin studēns diligent, from studēre to be zealous; see study

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Synonym Study

See pupil 1.

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Example Sentences

According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.

Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.

This was also the year Duke University student Belle Knox put college girls on the map.

HONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.

The congressman traces his belief in Santa Claus back 40 years, when he was a student going to college “on the GI Bill.”

It was one day when a student from the Stuttgardt conservatory attempted to play the Sonata Appassionata.

The student who does not intend to arouse himself need hope for no keen sense of beauty.

A pupil of her father until his death, when she became a student under Gabriel Max, in Munich, for a year.

One of them had taken four years of theology, and is an excellent student, and not so fitting for other things.

A story or narrative is invented for the purpose of helping the student, as it is claimed, to memorise it.

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