student

See also: Student, stúdent, stüdent, študent, and Študent

English

Etymology

From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin studēns, present participle of studeō (dedicate oneself to, study). Equivalent to study + -ent.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstjuː.dənt/, /ˈst͡ʃuː.dənt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstu.dənt/
  • Hyphenation: stu‧dent
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  • (file)

Noun

student (plural students)

  1. A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
    Synonyms: candlewaster, scholar, devotee, disciple
    She is a student of human interactions.
    He is a student of life.
    • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii], page 271, column 1:
      I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor leane enough to bee thought a good Studient: but to be ſaid an honeſt man and a good houſkeeper goes as fairely, as to ſay, a carefull man, & a great ſcholler. The Competitors enter.
    • 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, third printing edition, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, LCCN 66-19103, page 6:
      The student of marine life in Southern California should become aware that [] a great many changes have taken place during the past century that have modified the characters of the plant and animal communities of the seashore.
  2. A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
    The students were out raising funds for rag week.
    • a. 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, “Essay XII”, in The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith, volume III, Edinburgh: Geo. Mudie, published 1792, page 71:
      In general, alſo, it may be obſerved, that a greater degree of gentility is affixed to the character of a ſtudent in England than elſewhere ; by which means our clergy have an opportunity of ſeeing better company while young, and of ſooner wearing off thoſe prejudices which they are apt to imbibe even in the beſt regulated univerſities, and which may be juſtly termed the vulgar errors of the wiſe.
    • 1868, Charles Haight Farnham, quoting Francis Parkman, Autobiography, quoted in “Spiritual Growth”, in A Life of Francis Parkman, Toronto: George N. Morang and Company, published 1900, page 321:
      In behalf of manhood and common sense, he would protest against such a conclusion ; and if any pale student, glued to his desk here, seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruit is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written.
    • 1971, Johnson, Lyndon, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, LCCN 74-102146, OCLC 1067880747, page 180:
      A handful of young students bent on showing their patriotism had stirred up more trouble than they possibly could have imagined.
    1. (in particular) A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school).

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch student.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

student (plural studente)

  1. student

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈstudɛnt]
  • (file)

Noun

student m anim (feminine studentka)

  1. student (academic, at university)
    Synonym: študák

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • student in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • student in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • student in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From Latin studēns, a present participle of studēre (to favour, study). Compare also student, Student.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sd̥uˈd̥enˀd̥]

Noun

student c (singular definite studenten, plural indefinite studenter)

  1. a person who has graduated from gymnasium
  2. student (at a university)
    Synonym: studerende

Declension

Further reading


Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin studēns, present participle of studēre (to study).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /styˈdɛnt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: stu‧dent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

student m (plural studenten, diminutive studentje n, feminine studente)

  1. (Netherlands) A student at an institute for academic tertiary education.
  2. (Belgium, Suriname) A student at an institute for secondary or tertiary education. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Papiamentu: student (dated)

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstu.dent/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊd̪ɛn̪t̪]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstu.dent/, [ˈst̪uːd̪en̪t̪]

Verb

student

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of studeō

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Latin studēns, present participle of studeō.

Noun

student m (feminine equivalent studentka)

  1. student (person who studies an academic subject; person enrolled at a university)

Declension


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin studēns.

Noun

student m (definite singular studenten, indefinite plural studenter, definite plural studentene)

  1. a student (at university or college)

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin studēns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stʉːdɛnt/

Noun

student m (definite singular studenten, indefinite plural studentar, definite plural studentane)

  1. a student (person enrolled at a university)

Derived terms

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /styˈdɛŋt/

Noun

student m

  1. student

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English student, German Student, Russian студе́нт (studént), ultimately from Latin studēns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstu.dɛnt/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -udɛnt
  • Syllabification: stu‧dent

Noun

student m pers (diminutive studencik or studencina, augmentative studenciak, feminine studentka)

  1. (education) student, university student (person who is enrolled at a college or university)
    Synonym: żak
    Hypernym: uczeń

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
adverb
  • studencko
nouns
  • studenckość
  • studenteria

Further reading

  • student in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • student in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

student m (plural studenți, feminine equivalent studentă)

  1. college student

Declension

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stǔdent/
  • Hyphenation: stu‧dent

Noun

stùdent m (Cyrillic spelling сту̀дент)

  1. student (usually at a college or university)

Declension


Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɵˈdɛnt/
  • (file)

Noun

student c

  1. a student; someone who studies an academic subject
  2. a person enrolled at a university
  3. (before 1968) person with a diploma from a gymnasium (upper secondary school)
  4. (colloquial) person who has finished studies at a gymnasium

Declension

Declension of student 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative student studenten studenter studenterna
Genitive students studentens studenters studenternas
  • studentexamen
  • studentkår
  • studentmössa
  • studentorkester
  • studentoverall
  • studentsång

See also

  • ta studenten

Tatar

Noun

student

  1. student

Declension

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