student

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishstudent,studient,fromOld Frenchestudiant,estudiente,fromLatinstudēns,present participle ofstudeō(dedicate oneself to, study).Equivalent tostudy+‎-ent.

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student(pluralstudents)

  1. Apersonwhostudiesorlearnsabout a particularsubject.
    Synonyms:candlewaster,scholar,devotee,disciple
    She is astudentof human interactions.
    He is astudentof life.
    • c.1601–1602(date written),William Shakespeare,“Twelfe Night, or What You Will”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[](First Folio), London:[]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene ii],page271,column 1:
      I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor leane enough to bee thought a goodStudient : 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,3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published1975,→ISBN,→LCCN,page 6:
      Thestudentof 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 formallyenrolledat aschool,acollegeoruniversity,or another educational institution.
    Thestudentswere out raising funds forrag week.
    • a.1774,Oliver Goldsmith,“Essay XII”, inThe Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith,volume III, Edinburgh: Geo. Mudie, published1792,page71:
      In general, alſo, it may be obſerved, that a greater degree of gentility is affixed to the character of aſtudentin 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, quotingFrancis Parkman,Autobiography,quoted in“Spiritual Growth”, inA Life of Francis Parkman,Toronto: George N. Morang and Company, published1900,page321:
      In behalf of manhood and common sense, he would protest against such a conclusion ; and if any palestudent,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,Lyndon Johnson,The Vantage Point[2],Holt, Reinhart & Winston,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page180:
      A handful of youngstudentsbent on showing their patriotism had stirred up more trouble than they possibly could have imagined.
    1. (in particular)A person who is enrolled at acollegeoruniversity(as contrasted with apupilorschoolchildattending aprimaryorsecondary school).

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Afrikaans

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FromDutchstudent.

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student(pluralstudente)

  1. student

Crimean Tatar

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BorrowedfromRussianстудент(student).

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  • Hyphenation:stu‧dent

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student

  1. student

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Czech

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studentmanim(female equivalentstudentka,related adjectivestudentský)

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

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  • student”,inPříruční slovník jazyka českého(in Czech),1935–1957
  • student”,inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého(in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
  • student”,inInternetová jazyková příručka(in Czech)

Danish

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Etymology

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FromLatinstudēns,a present participle ofstudēre(to favour, study).Compare alsoEnglishstudent,GermanStudent.

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studentc(singular definitestudenten,plural indefinitestudenter)

  1. a person who hasgraduatedfromgymnasium
  2. student(at a university)
    Synonym:studerende

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Dutch

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Borrowed fromLatinstudēns,present participle ofstudēre(to study).

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studentm(pluralstudenten,diminutivestudentjen,femininestudente)

  1. (Netherlands)astudentat an institute foracademictertiary education
  2. (Belgium,Suriname)astudentat an institute for secondary or tertiary education.(Can weverify(+)this sense?)

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  • Papiamentu:student(dated)

Latin

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student

  1. third-personpluralpresentactiveindicativeofstudeō

Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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FromLatinstudēns,present participle ofstudeō.

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studentmpers(femininestudentka)

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromGermanStudent,fromLatinstudēns.

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studentm(definite singularstudenten,indefinite pluralstudenter,definite pluralstudentene)

  1. astudent(at university or college)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Borrowed fromGermanStudent,fromLatinstudēns.

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studentm(definite singularstudenten,indefinite pluralstudentar,definite pluralstudentane)

  1. astudent(person enrolled at a university)

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Piedmontese

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studentm

  1. student

Polish

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PolishWikipediahas an article on:
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Etymology

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BorrowedfromGermanStudent.[1][2]First attested in the 16th century.[3]CompareKashubiansztudentandSilesiansztudynt.

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studentmpers(female equivalentstudentka,diminutivestudencikorstudenciak,augmentativestudencina)

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

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Trivia

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According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej(1990),studentis one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 25 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 809th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

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  1. ^Mirosław Bańko,Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “student”,inWielki słownik wyrazów obcych,→ISBN
  2. ^Stanisław Dubisz,editor (2003), “student”,inUniwersalny słownik języka polskiego[Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1](in Polish), volumes1-4,Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA,→ISBN
  3. ^Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “student”,inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku[A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^Ida Kurcz(1990) “student”,inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej[Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page567

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Romanian

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studentm(pluralstudenți,feminine equivalentstudentă)

  1. collegestudent

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Serbo-Croatian

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

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stùdentm(Cyrillic spellingсту̀дент)

  1. student(usually at a college or university)

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Swedish

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studentc

  1. astudent(at a college or university – compareelev)
    1. anundergraduate
  2. (before 1968)a person with agymnasium(upper secondary school)diploma
  3. a (recent)gymnasiumgraduate
    tastudenten
    graduate from gymnasium
    (literally, “takethe student[idiomatic]”)

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"I was his student" and the like in the general sense is more idiomatically "Jag var hanselev."

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Declension ofstudent
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative student studenten studenter studenterna
Genitive students studentens studenters studenternas

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student

  1. student

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