student

See also: Student, stüdent, and študent

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
  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun

student (plural students)

  1. 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.
  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.
    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).
    • 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.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch student.

Noun

student (plural studente)

  1. student

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstudɛnt/
  • (file)

Noun

student m anim

  1. student (academic, at university)

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Further reading

  • student in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • student in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

student

  1. Someone who has graduated from the gymnasium.

Declension


Dutch

Etymology

From Old French estudiant (student), from Latin studens, present participle of studere (to study).

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: stu‧dent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

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

  1. student

Latin

Verb

student

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of studeō

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Latin studēns, present participle of studeō.

Noun

student m (feminine equivalent studentka)

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

Declension


Norwegian Bokmål

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)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin studēns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stʉːdɛnt/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

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

  1. a student (person enrolled at a university)

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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstu.dɛnt/
  • (file)

Noun

student m pers (feminine studentka)

  1. student (academic, at university)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • student in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

student m (plural studenți, feminine equivalent studentă)

  1. college student

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stǔdent/
  • Hyphenation: stu‧dent

Noun

stùdent m (Cyrillic spelling сту̀дент)

  1. student (usually at a college or university)

Declension


Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɵˈdɛnt/
  • (file)

Noun

student c

  1. a student; someone who studies an academic subject
  2. a person enrolled at a university
  3. (before 1968) person with a diploma from a gymnasium (upper secondary school)
  4. (colloquial) person who has finished studies at a gymnasium

Declension

Declension of student 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative student studenten studenter studenterna
Genitive students studentens studenters studenternas
  • studentexamen
  • studentkår
  • studentmössa
  • studentorkester
  • studentoverall
  • studentsång

See also

  • ta studenten

Tatar

Noun

student

  1. student

Declension

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