student
English
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.dn̩t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstu.dn̩t/, /ˈstu.dənt/
- Hyphenation: stu‧dent
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Noun
student (plural students)
- A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
- She is a student of human interactions.
- He is a student of life.
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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.
- 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 particular) A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school).
- 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.
Synonyms
- (person who studies a particular subject): candlewaster, scholar; devotee, disciple
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
person who studies a subject
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person enrolled at a school, university or other education institution
person enrolled at a university
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schoolchild, pupil, person attending school — see schoolchild
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Danish
Declension
Declension of student
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | student | studenten | studenter | studenterne |
genitive | students | studentens | studenters | studenternes |
Dutch
Etymology
From Old French estudiant (“student”), from Latin studens, present participle of studere (“to study”).
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: stu‧dent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Latin
Lower Sorbian
Noun
student m (feminine equivalent studentka)
- student (person who studies an academic subject; person enrolled at a university)
Declension
Declension of student
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
student m (definite singular studenten, indefinite plural studenter, definite plural studentene)
- a student (at university or college)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stʉːdɛnt/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
student m (definite singular studenten, indefinite plural studentar, definite plural studentane)
- a student (person enrolled at a university)
Derived terms
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstu.dɛnt/
Audio (file)
Declension
Derived terms
Romanian
Declension
declension of student
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stǔdent/
- Hyphenation: stu‧dent
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɵˈdɛnt/
audio (file)
Noun
student c
- a student; someone who studies an academic subject
- a person enrolled at a university
- (before 1968) person with a diploma from a gymnasium (upper secondary school)
- (colloquial) person who has finished studies at a gymnasium
Declension
Declension of student | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | student | studenten | studenter | studenterna |
Genitive | students | studentens | studenters | studenternas |
Related terms
- studentexamen
- studentkår
- studentmössa
- studentorkester
- studentoverall
- studentsång
See also
- ta studenten
Tatar
Declension
declension of student
Nominative | student |
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Genitive | studentnıñ |
Dative | studentqa |
Accusative | studentnı |
Locative | studentta |
Ablative | studenttan |
References
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