Student

4 definitions found

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

  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.
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              Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student
              from his book.                        --Shak.
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     2. One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive
        and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or
        of physical nature.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  student
       n 1: a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
            [syn: {pupil}, {educatee}]
       2: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who
          by long study has gained mastery in one or more
          disciplines [syn: {scholar}, {scholarly person}]

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

  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,
     walking encyclopedia
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  STUDENT
       
          D.G. Bobrow 1964.  Early query system.  Sammet 1969, p.664.