| Student 1. (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. 2. (n.) One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature. Thesaurus Entries academician, admirer, apprentice, bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, commentator, critic, devotee, disciple, evaluator, follower, genius, giant of learning, grind, humanist, learned clerk, learned man, learner, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, observer, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, pupil, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolboy, schoolgirl, schoolman, swat, swot, swotter, trainee, undergraduate, walking encyclopedia |