Student
['stjuːd(ə)nt] or ['studnt]
Definition
(noun.) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Scholar, pupil, learner.
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- These thirty years after 1848 are years of very great interest to the student of international political methods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It puts the student in the habitual attitude of finding points of contact and mutual bearings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The drill of the student involved chiefly the acquisition of the special signals employed in railway work, including the numerals and abbreviations applied to save time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1837 Dalton wrote: Berzelius's symbols are horrifying: a young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself a cquainted with them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The colleges submit to it whenever they concentrate their attention on the details of the student's vocation before they have built up some cultural background. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The student in his further reading will meet with constant references to round-skulled (Brachycephalic) and long-skulled peoples (Dolichocephalic). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- William Pitt Edison as a youth was so clever with his pencil that it was proposed to send him to Paris as an art student. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The American college student has the gravity and mental habits of a Supreme Court judge; his wild oats are rarely spiritual; the critical, analytical habit of mind is distrusted. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hence the need that the teacher know both subject matter and the characteristic needs and capacities of the student. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The learned Dominican Albertus Magnus (1193-1280) was a careful student of Aristotle as well as of his Arabian commentators. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- When a student imagines that philosophy gives him a headache, he never does anything; he is always unwell. Plato. The Republic.
- A student can make in the laboratory sufficient charcoal for art lessons by heating in an earthen vessel wood buried in sand. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- President Wilson (born 1856) had previously been a prominent student and teacher of history, constitutional law, and the political sciences generally. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To-day such a crowd of working-men would be sure to include at least one student of a night school or correspondence course who would explain the mystery offhand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The first thing that will strike the student is the intermittence of the efforts of the church to establish the world City of God. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perhaps he did, having just left a pleasant little smoking-party of twelve medical students, in a small back parlour with a large fire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The word was taken up by the students of Harvard University, and gradually spread throughout the whole country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The father of one of his students was engaged in the manufacture of alcohol from beetroot sugar, and Pasteur came to be consulted when difficulties arose in the manufacturing process. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Many of these pioneer students and workmen became afterward large and successful contractors, or have filled positions of distinction as managers and superintendents of central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We flew up, and hid behind the curtains, but sly peeps showed us Fred and the students singing away down below. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She was at home with everybody in the place, pedlars, punters, tumblers, students and all. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Students had to come at great cost to themselves to this crowded centre because there was no other way of gathering even scraps of knowledge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The students of languages (philologists) tell us that they are unable to trace with certainty any common features in all the languages of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Students of politics are familiar with a check and balance theory of the powers of government. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Where the masters, however, really perform their duty, there are no examples, I believe, that the greater part of the students ever neglect theirs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Chinese history is still very imperfectly known to European students, and our accounts of the early records are particularly unsatisfactory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even if all students were embryonic scientific specialists, it is questionable whether this is the most effective procedure. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- With the Volta prize he founded the Volta Laboratory in Washington for the use of students. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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