student
a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil: a student at Yale.
any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully: a student of human nature.
Origin of student
1synonym study For student
pronunciation note For student
Other words from student
- stu·dent·less, adjective
- stu·dent·like, adjective
- an·ti·stu·dent, noun, adjective
- non·stu·dent, noun
Words Nearby student
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How to use student in a sentence
According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.
Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.
This was also the year Duke University student Belle Knox put college girls on the map.
Porn Stars on the Year in Porn: Drone Erotica, Belle Knox, and Wild Sex | Aurora Snow | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.
The congressman traces his belief in Santa Claus back 40 years, when he was a student going to college “on the GI Bill.”
Kerry Bentivolio: The Congressman Who Believes in Santa Claus | Ben Jacobs | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
It was one day when a student from the Stuttgardt conservatory attempted to play the Sonata Appassionata.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayThe student who does not intend to arouse himself need hope for no keen sense of beauty.
Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge SouthwickA pupil of her father until his death, when she became a student under Gabriel Max, in Munich, for a year.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementOne of them had taken four years of theology, and is an excellent student, and not so fitting for other things.
A story or narrative is invented for the purpose of helping the student, as it is claimed, to memorise it.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
British Dictionary definitions for student
/ (ˈstjuːdənt) /
a person following a course of study, as in a school, college, university, etc
(as modifier): student teacher
a person who makes a thorough study of a subject
Origin of student
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