student

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstjuː.dənt/, /ˈst͡ʃuː.dənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dənt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈst(j)uː.dənt/
  • (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪʊ.dənt/
• Hyphenation: stu‧dent

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːdənt

Noun

student (plural students)

1. A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.

   Synonyms: candlewaster, scholar, devotee, disciple

   She is a student of human interactions.

   He is a student of life.

   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 271, column 1:

     I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor leane enough to bee thought a good Studient : but to be ſaid an honeſt man and a good houſkeeper goes as fairely, as to ſay, a carefull man, & a great ſcholler. The Competitors enter.

   • 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 6:

     The student of marine life in Southern California should become aware that […] a great many changes have taken place during the past century that have modified the characters of the plant and animal communities of the seashore.

2. 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.

   • a. 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, “Essay XII”, in The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith, volume III, Edinburgh: Geo. Mudie, published 1792, page 71:

     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.

   • 1868, Charles Haight Farnham, quoting Francis Parkman, Autobiography, quoted in “Spiritual Growth”, in A Life of Francis Parkman, Toronto: George N. Morang and Company, published 1900, page 321:

     In behalf of manhood and common sense, he would protest against such a conclusion ; and if any pale student, glued to his desk here, seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruit is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written.

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:

     A handful of young students bent on showing their patriotism had stirred up more trouble than they possibly could have imagined.

   1. (in particular) A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school).

See also

• learner

Anagrams

• stunted

Etymology

From Dutch student.

Pronunciation

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Noun

student (plural studente)

1. student

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian студент (student).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: stu‧dent

Noun

student

1. student

References

• “student”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstudɛnt]

• Audio:

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Noun

student m anim (female equivalent studentka, relational adjective studentský)

1. student (academic, at university)

   Synonym: študák

Further reading

• “student”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “student”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “student”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Etymology

From Latin studēns, a present participle of studēre (“to favour, study”). Compare also English student, German Student.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sd̥uˈd̥enˀd̥]

Noun

student c (singular definite studenten, plural indefinite studenter)

1. a person who has graduated from gymnasium
2. student (at a university)

   Synonym: studerende

Further reading

• “student” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “student” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin studēns, present participle of studēre (“to study”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /styˈdɛnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: stu‧dent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

student m (plural studenten, diminutive studentje n, feminine studente)

1. (Netherlands) a student at an institute for academic tertiary education
2. (Belgium, Suriname) a student at an institute for secondary or tertiary education. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dent/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊd̪ɛn̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dent/, [ˈst̪uːd̪en̪t̪]

Verb

student

1. third-person plural present active indicative of studeō

Etymology

From Latin studēns, present participle of studeō.

Noun

student m anim (feminine studentka)

1. student (person who studies an academic subject; person enrolled at a university)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin studēns.

Noun

student m (definite singular studenten, indefinite plural studenter, definite plural studentene)

1. a student (at university or college)

References

• “student” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin studēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʉːdɛnt/

Noun

student m (definite singular studenten, indefinite plural studentar, definite plural studentane)

1. a student (person enrolled at a university)

References

• “student” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /styˈdɛŋt/

Noun

student m

1. student