student
noun
- person who studies or learns about a particular subject
- person who is formally enrolled at a school, college, university or other educational institution
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈstjuː.dn̩t/ / /ˈst͡ʃuː.dn̩t/ / /ˈstu.dn̩t/
adj
Etymology: From the pen-name of Irish statistician William Sealy Gosset.
- Clipping of Student's.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin studēns, present participle of studeō (“dedicate oneself to, study”). Equivalent to study + -ent.
- A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
“She is a student of human interactions.”
“He is a student of life.”
- A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
“The students were out raising funds for rag week.”
“In general, alſo, it may be obſerved, that a greater degree of gentility is affixed to the character of a ſtudent in England than elſewhere ; by which means our clergy have an opportunity of ſeeing better company while young, and of ſooner wearing off thoſe prejudices which they are apt to imbibe even in the beſt regulated univerſities, and which may be juſtly termed the vulgar errors of the wiſe.”
- A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.