gymnasiast

¹ American  

[jim-ney-zee-ast] / dʒɪmˈneɪ ziˌæst /

noun

1. a gymnast.

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gymnasiast ² American  

[jim-ney-zee-ast] / dʒɪmˈneɪ ziˌæst /

noun

1. a student in a gymnasium.

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gymnasiast British  

/ dʒɪmˈneɪzɪˌæst /

noun

1. a student in a gymnasium

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Etymology

Origin of gymnasiast¹

First recorded in 1855–60; gymnasi(um) ¹ + -ast ( def. )

Origin of gymnasiast¹

1820–30; < German < New Latin gymnasiasta. See gymnasium ², -ast ( def. )

Example Sentences

In general, the gymnasiast is already more free, and placed in greater external advantage than the scholars of the other schools; the near prospect of student life calls forth, not seldom, extravagances, which, however, are contended with more vigorously by the teachers, but through the advanced age of the youths are not readily repressed.

From Project Gutenberg

Though it is strictly forbidden, yet the gymnasiast frequently resorts secretly to public places of diversion, inns, etc.; he also begins to smoke, and to become regardless of conventional relations.

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When the gymnasiast has passed through all the classes, he then undergoes his examination.

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In our authorial world we see the sad result; that teachers begin at the end and undertake, by means of writers who properly only give the tenderest, best taste the last finish, to carve that of the gymnasiast out of the rough, and so follow neither nature nor me.

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I may have been a fair example of a boy lover, but I fear a diary which I kept and have preserved goes far to prove that I was a most precocious—you might call it priggish—young meteorologist, making his observations with pedantic regularity, morn, noon, and night, on thermometer and ombrometer, and publishing the results in his own name with the proud prefix of "Herr Gymnasiast."

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