Learner

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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