student

4 definitions found

student - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student
              from his book.                        --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. 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]

student - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  student
      n 1: a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
           [syn: student, 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, bookman, student]

student - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

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

student - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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