Word Meanings - STUDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a

Additional info about word: STUDENT

1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book. Shak. 2. One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STUDENT)

• Disciple
• Follower
• student
• believer
• votary
• Learner
• Tyro
• novice
• pupil
• beginner
• scholar
• disciple
• catechumen
• Pupil
• Scholar
• learner
• tyro
• ward
• schoolman
• scientist
• savant
• gownsman
• linguist

Related words: (words related to STUDENT)

• SCHOLARSHIP
  1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
• CATECHUMENIST
  A catechumen. Bp. Morton.
• CATECHUMENATE
  The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
• GOWNSMAN; GOWNMAN
  One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
• STUDENTRY
  A body of students.
• STUDENT
  1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a
• NOVICE
  One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer. (more info) 1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in
• CATECHUMEN
  One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
• LINGUIST
  1. A master of the use of language; a talker. I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster. 2. A person skilled in languages. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Macaulay.
• PUPILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.
• DISCIPLESS
  A female disciple.
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• LINGUISTICS
  The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
• BELIEVER
  One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom
• SCHOLARLY
  Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.
• PUPILLARITY
  The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females. (more info) Law)
• LINGUISTIC; LINGUISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
• DISCIPLESHIP
  The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. Jer. Taylor.
• DISCIPLE
  One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior. The
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• CONDISCIPLE
  A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
• UNBELIEVER
  1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. 2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person;