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(3.44 / 16 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(3.69 / 16 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(3.71 / 42 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(3.00 / 5 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(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. student

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

   The student housing 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

How to pronounce student?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Seth Frotman:

   What we're seeing now, is that the student loan collection machine that exists in America literally can't be responsive to the law.

2. Michael Doucet:

   The first thing we’re going to do is remove that student from the premises with proper authority, then, we’re going to have a home visit done by detectives of the sheriff’s department, and if no charges are filed, we’re going to conduct a threat assessment on the student.

3. Peggy Blumenthal:

   A student that's smart enough to come to the U.S. and get into college is smart enough to navigate the admission process all by themselves.

4. Shawna Carpentier:

   We deeply value every single student in our schools. This was no different with Kaiden, this is not a light issue we have looked past. This was a very tragic situation we feel badly about... we made an unfortunate mistake.

5. Indiana University:

   The office of the Dean of Students and IU Police Department are prepared to work closely with the national ATO organization to facilitate this action, indiana University's Office of Student Ethics will continue to investigate this issue as it relates to potential violations of the university code of student conduct.

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