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STUDENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Synonyms:
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student
Classified under:
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"):
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)
musicologist (a student of musicology)
academician; schoolman (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)
alum; alumna; alumnus; grad; graduate (a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university))
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)
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
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)
mujtihad (an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts)
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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"):
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)
art student (someone studying to be an artist)
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)
Context examples:
Some probability is lent to the theory by the fact that one of these students came from the north of Ireland, and, to the best of Miss Cushing’s belief, from Belfast.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The three goals of the AREA program are: to support meritorious research, to strengthen the research environment of the institution, and to expose students to research.
(Academic Research Enhancement Awards (Area), NCI Thesaurus)
DEAR PROFESSOR CHALLENGER, it said, As a humble student of Nature, I have always taken the most profound interest in your speculations as to the differences between Darwin and Weissmann.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Listen, Diana," said one of the absorbed students; "Franz and old Daniel are together in the night-time, and Franz is telling a dream from which he has awakened in terror—listen!"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
That's the idea of Matemagos, a game designed for smartphones that combines magic with the subject considered the horror of students.
(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)
This, the student was to swallow upon a fasting stomach, and for three days following, eat nothing but bread and water.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The building stage was led by six students, but a total 400 worked on the project, which involved other science activities as well.
(Satellite made by Brazilian junior high students launched in Japan, Agência Brasil)
Your English 'you' is so cold, say 'thou', heart's dearest, it means so much to me, pleaded Mr. Bhaer, more like a romantic student than a grave professor.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Well! That put it in my head to enter myself as a law student; and that ran away with all that was left of the fifty pounds.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or identifiable private information.
(Human Study Subject, Food and Drug Administration)
