STUDENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does student mean? 

• STUDENT (noun)
  The noun STUDENT has 2 senses:

1. a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

2. a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

  Familiarity information: STUDENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUDENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

educatee; pupil; student

Hypernyms ("student" is a kind of...):

enrollee (a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "student"):

art student (someone studying to be an artist)

Wykehamist (a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College)

withdrawer (a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled)

nonachiever; underachiever; underperformer (a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates)

skipper (a student who fails to attend classes)

sixth-former (a student in the sixth form)

seminarian; seminarist (a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary))

scholar (a student who holds a scholarship)

passer (a student who passes an examination)

overachiever (a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated)

nonreader (a student who is very slow in learning to read)

medical student; medico (a student in medical school)

major (a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject)

law student (a student in law school)

Ivy Leaguer (a student or graduate at an Ivy League school)

Etonian (a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College)

crammer (a student who crams)

college boy; college man; collegian (a student (or former student) at a college or university)

catechumen; neophyte (a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist)

auditor (a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit)

Holonyms ("student" is a member of...):

teacher-student relation (the academic relation between teachers and their students)

Derivation:

studentship (the position of student)

study (be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student

Hypernyms ("student" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "student"):

alum; alumna; alumnus; grad; graduate (a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university))

Vedist (a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas)

valedictorian; valedictory speaker (the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement)

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

Sinologist (a student of Chinese history and language and culture)

Shakespearean; Shakespearian (a Shakespearean scholar)

medieval Schoolman; Schoolman (a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism)

scholiast (a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author))

salutatorian; salutatory speaker (a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises)

generalist; Renaissance man (a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests)

Renaissance man (a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics)

reader (a person who enjoys reading)

post doc; postdoc (a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

philomath (a lover of learning)

bookworm; pedant; scholastic (a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit)

mujtihad (an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts)

musicologist (a student of musicology)

academician; schoolman (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)

Arabist (a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture)

bibliographer (someone trained in compiling bibliographies)

bibliophile; book lover; booklover (someone who loves (and usually collects) books)

Cabalist; Kabbalist (a student of the Jewish Kabbalah)

doctor; Dr. (a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution)

goliard (a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs)

humanist (a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts)

initiate; learned person; pundit; savant (someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field)

Islamist (a scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studies)

licentiate (holds a license (degree) from a (European) university)

Masorete; Masorite; Massorete (a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah))

master (someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution)

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

Instance hyponyms:

Marcus Terentius Varro; Varro (Roman scholar (116-27 BC))

Edmond Malone; Edmund Malone; Malone (English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812))

Lorenzo de'Medici; Lorenzo the Magnificent (Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492))

Crichton; James Crichton; The Admirable Crichton (Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582))

Derivation:

studentship (the position of student)

 Context examples 

“I understand you to say that there are three students who use this stair, and are in the habit of passing your door?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But now I was without this help, yet I wanted to follow him, so I said:—Professor, let me be your pet student again.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As a result, all the students will be tested with no acknowledgment of the students’ rights.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The student looked about everywhere; and seeing no one, and not knowing where the voice came from, cried out, “Who calls me?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But I have a feeling that I am what I may call a natural student.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Doctor's Degree is the highest award a student can earn for graduate study.

(Doctorate Degree, NCI Thesaurus)

But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers also noted how much water and caffeine the students consumed, and how long they spent outdoors each day.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

“May heaven forfend!” cried the student hastily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An associate's degree awarded to students who are permitted to relax some of the general education requirements in order to study more course work in their program area.

(Associate of Applied Science, NCI Thesaurus)