Definitions for student
ˈstud nt, ˈstyud-stu·dent

Princeton's WordNet(3.77 / 16 votes)Rate this definition:

1. student, pupil, educatee(noun)

   a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

2. scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student(noun)

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

Wiktionary(3.36 / 14 votes)Rate this definition:

1. student(Noun)

   A person who studies a particular academic subject

   A student of philosophy.

   Etymology: From studens, present participle of studere

2. student(Noun)

   A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not

   He is a student of life.

   Etymology: From studens, present participle of studere

3. student(Noun)

   A person enrolled at a university

   The students were out raising funds for rag week.

   Etymology: From studens, present participle of studere

4. student(Noun)

   A schoolchild

   Etymology: From studens, present participle of studere

Webster Dictionary(3.62 / 13 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Student(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [L. studens, -entis, p. pr. of studere to study. See Study, n.]

2. Student(noun)

   one who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature

   Etymology: [L. studens, -entis, p. pr. of studere to study. See Study, n.]

Freebase(3.68 / 35 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Student

   A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English, although in the United States a person enrolled in grades K–12 is often called a student. In its widest use, student is used for anyone who is learning, including mid-career adults who are taking vocational education or returning to university.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Student

   stū′dent, n. one who studies, a scholar at a higher school, college, or university: one devoted to the study of any subject: a man devoted to books.—ns. Stū′dentry, students collectively; Stū′dentship, an endowment for a student in a college.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. student

   A person who studies a specific subject at a form of unity government approved school, college, university, academy or other approved education facility.

   The student accommodation is beautiful.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 3, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'student' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1333

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'student' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2399

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'student' in Nouns Frequency: #148

Anagrams for student »

1. stunted

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of student in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of student in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of student in a Sentence

1. Belinda Wilson:

   The union's position is that no teacher, and by extension no student, is going to enter any of those buildings until an engineer is able to say to that those schools are structurally sound, our role is to get kids in schools so that they're not further disadvantaged or further traumatized.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   Our concern is with the malign actions of the Chinese Communist Party and specific individuals, not with the Chinese people, the graduate students and researchers who are targeted, co-opted, and exploited by the PRC government for its military gain represent a small subset of Chinese student and researcher visa applicants coming to the United States.

3. Jacob Lenfesty:

   What I do know is just days after the election Butler President James Danko had sent out a student-wide e-mail and in that he had made a point to say that we should all accept President Trump as the winner of the election and move forward after months of negative political discourse. And I feel like, you know, the initial terms that they had used just don’t line up with President Danko’s goals.

4. Christine Helwick:

   It's hard to imagine that a student would not be knowledgeable about either one of those.

5. Sjoerd Hulshof:

   Laurent Simons is the fastest student we have ever had here, not only is he hyper intelligent but also a very sympathetic boy.

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