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student
[ stood-nt, styood- ]
noun
- 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.
student
/ ˈːəԳ /
noun
- 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
Pronunciation Note
Other Word Forms
- ٳdԳ· adjective
- ٳdԳ· adjective
- t·ٳdԳ noun adjective
- ԴDz·ٳdԳ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of student1
Word History and Origins
Origin of student1
Compare Meanings
How does student compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“I have students who look at ’60 Minutes’ and say ‘that’s the kind of person I want to be.’
The University of California system was already reeling from massive federal funding cuts, student visa cancellations and Justice Department probes into admissions and allegations of antisemitism.
The announcement follows more than 100 lawsuits filed by students who were abruptly stripped of their legal right to study in US universities.
Documents presented to the court said that she had been born to a young student in rural Nigeria, who was not able to care for her.
Nandi-Ndaitwah said free university education would be phased in gradually and that the only "contribution as families and students for now will be towards accommodation and other related costs".
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More About Student
Where doesstudent come from?
The word student entered English around 1350–1400. It ultimately derives from the Latin ٳܻŧ. The meaning of this verb is one we think will resonate with a lot of actual students out there: “to take pains.” No, we’re not making this up: a student, etymologically speaking, can be understood a “pains-taker”!
In Latin, ٳܻŧ had many other senses, though, and ones that some students may have a harder time relating to. ٳܻŧ could also mean “to desire, be eager for, be enthusiastic about, busy oneself with, apply oneself to, be diligent, pursue, study.” The underlying idea of student, then, is about striving—for new knowledge and abilities. It’s about that mix of hard work and passion. Isn’t that inspirational?
Dig deeper
We don’t think you have to be a student of etymology to make the connection between student and study. Like student, the verb study also comes from the Latin ٳܻŧ. The noun study—as in The scientists conducted a sleep study or Her favorite room of her house is the study—is also related to ٳܻŧ and is more immediately derived from the Latin noun studium, meaning “zeal, inclination,” among other senses.
But not all connections between words are so obvious. Consider student and tweezers. Would you have guessed this unlikely pair of words share a common root? Let’s, um, pick this apart.
Tweezers are small pincers or nippers for plucking our hairs, extracting splinters, picking up small objects, and so forth. The word entered English in the mid-1600s, based on tweeze, an obsolete noun meaning “case of surgical instruments,” which contained what we now call tweezers.
Losing its initial E along the way, tweeze comes from etweese, which is an English rendering of the French etui, a type of small case used to hold needles, cosmetic instruments, and the like. Etui can ultimately be traced back to the Latin ū徱, “to treat with care,” related to the same ٳܻŧ. This is how student is related to, of all things, tweezers.
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