student

student

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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/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈst(j)uː.dənt/
    • (dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈstɪʊ.dənt/
  • Hyphenation: stu‧dent
  • Rhymes: -uːdənt

Noun

student (plural students)

  1. A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
    Synonyms: candlewaster, scholar, devotee, disciple
  2. A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
    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).

Antonyms

  • teacher

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • learner

Anagrams

  • stunted

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch student.

Pronunciation

Noun

student (plural studente)

  1. student

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian студент (student).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: stu‧dent

Noun

student

  1. student

Declension

References

  • “student”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈstudɛnt]

Noun

student m anim (female equivalent studentka, relational adjective studentský)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

  • žák
  • posluchač

Further reading

  • “student”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “student”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “student”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

From Latin studēns, a present participle of studēre (“to favour, study”). Compare also English student, German 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

  • “student” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • “student” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /styˈdɛnt/
  • 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

Related terms

  • studeren

Descendants

  • → Papiamentu: student (dated)

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈstu.dent/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊd̪ɛn̪t̪]
  • (modern Italianate 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 anim (feminine 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

  • medisinstudent

References

  • “student” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

  • medisinstudent

References

  • “student” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /styˈdɛŋt/

Noun

student m

  1. student

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, ultimately from Latin studēns. First attested in the 16th century.. Compare Kashubian sztudent and Silesian sztudynt.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -udɛnt
  • Syllabification: stu‧dent

Noun

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

  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

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), student is 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.

References

Further reading

  • student in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • student in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • “STUDENT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 01.10.2010
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “student”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “student”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “student”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 483

Romanian

Noun

student m (plural studenți, feminine equivalent studentă)

  1. college student

Declension

See also

  • elev
  • elevă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

stùdent m (Cyrillic spelling сту̀дент)

  1. student (usually at a college or university)

Declension

Further reading

  • “student”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɵˈdɛnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

student c

  1. a student (at a college or university – compare elev)
    1. an undergraduate
  2. (before 1968) a person with a gymnasium (upper secondary school) diploma
  3. a (recent) gymnasium graduate

Usage notes

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

Declension

Derived terms

See also

  • elev

References

  • student in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • student in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • student in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tatar

Noun

student

  1. student

Declension

References

  • universitetnı tämamlağan student ikän

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