student word meaning

a person who is learning at a college or university: a law/philosophy/medical student, a graduate/postgraduate student (= one who has completed a first degree)

1. Scholar, learner; especially : one who attends a school. 2. One who studies : an attentive and systematic observer; a student of politics.

STUDENT definition: a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil. See examples of student used in a ...

Etymology. From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin studēns, present participle of studeō (“dedicate oneself to ...

A person studying at a university or other place of higher education. Also with of or in (a subject), or with the subject studied as preceding distinguishing ...

A student is a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution, or more generally, a person who takes a special ...

In modern use (from c. 1900) it tends to mean "scholar enrolled in an institute of primary or secondary learning." For "students collectively," studentry has ...

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2 meanings: 1. a. a person following a course of study, as in a school, college, university, etc b. (as modifier) 2. a person.