Student

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: stu=dent

CIDE DICTIONARY

Student, n. [L. studens, -entis, p. pr. of studere to study. See Study, n.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Student, n.
1 a person who is studying, esp. at university or another place of higher education.
2 (attrib.) studying in order to become (a student nurse).
3 a person of studious habits.
4 Brit. a graduate recipient of a stipend from the foundation of a college, esp. a fellow of Christ Church, Oxford.

Derivative

studentship n.

Etymology

ME f. L studere f. studium STUDY

THESAURUS

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, walking encyclopedia

ROGET THESAURUS

Student

Learner

N learner, scholar, student, pupil, apprentice, prentice, journeyman, articled clerk, beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur, abecedarian, alphabetarian, alumnus, eleve, recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer, seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner, debutant, intern, resident, schoolboy, fresh, freshman, frosh, junior soph, junior, senior soph, senior, sophister, sophomore, questionist, undergraduate, graduate student, law student, medical student, pre-med, post-doctoral student, post-doc, matriculated student, part-time student, night student, auditor, class, grade, seminar, form, remove, pupilage, disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte, fellow-student, condisciple, school, in statu pupillari, in leading strings, practise makes perfect.