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Student
//ˈstjuː.dn̩t// adj, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Clipping of Student's. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Noun
- 1 A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
"She is a student of human interactions."
- 2 someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution wordnet
- 5 A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.; A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school).
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
From the pen-name of Irish statistician William Sealy Gosset.
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