| student | | |
| n. (person) | 1. educatee, pupil, student | a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution. |
| ~ art student | someone studying to be an artist. |
| ~ auditor | a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit. |
| ~ catechumen, neophyte | a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist. |
| ~ college boy, college man, collegian | a student (or former student) at a college or university. |
| ~ crammer | a student who crams. |
| ~ enrollee | a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study. |
| ~ etonian | a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College. |
| ~ ivy leaguer | a student or graduate at an Ivy League school. |
| ~ law student | a student in law school. |
| ~ major | a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject.; "she is a linguistics major" |
| ~ medical student, medico | a student in medical school. |
| ~ nonreader | a student who is very slow in learning to read. |
| ~ overachiever | a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated. |
| ~ passer | a student who passes an examination. |
| ~ scholar | a student who holds a scholarship. |
| ~ seminarian, seminarist | a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary). |
| ~ sixth-former | a student in the sixth form. |
| ~ skipper | a student who fails to attend classes. |
| ~ nonachiever, underachiever, underperformer | a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates. |
| ~ withdrawer | a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled. |
| ~ wykehamist | a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College. |
| ~ teacher-student relation | the academic relation between teachers and their students. |
| n. (person) | 2. bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student | a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines. |
| ~ intellectual, intellect | a person who uses the mind creatively. |
| ~ academician, schoolman | a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation. |
| ~ alumna, alumnus, graduate, grad, alum | a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university). |
| ~ arabist | a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture. |
| ~ bibliographer | someone trained in compiling bibliographies. |
| ~ bibliophile, book lover, booklover | someone who loves (and usually collects) books. |
| ~ kabbalist, cabalist | a student of the Jewish Kabbalah. |
| ~ dr., doctor | a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution.; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics" |
| ~ goliard | a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs. |
| ~ historian, historiographer | a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it. |
| ~ humanist | a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts. |
| ~ learned person, pundit, savant, initiate | someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field. |
| ~ islamist | a scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studies. |
| ~ licentiate | holds a license (degree) from a (European) university. |
| ~ masorete, masorite, massorete | a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah). |
| ~ master | someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution. |
| ~ mujtihad | an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts. |
| ~ musicologist | a student of musicology. |
| ~ bookworm, pedant, scholastic | a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit. |
| ~ philomath | a lover of learning. |
| ~ philosopher | a specialist in philosophy. |
| ~ post doc, postdoc | a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree. |
| ~ reader | a person who enjoys reading. |
| ~ renaissance man | a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics. |
| ~ generalist, renaissance man | a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests.; "a statistician has to be something of a generalist" |
| ~ salutatorian, salutatory speaker | a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises. |
| ~ scholiast | a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author). |
| ~ medieval schoolman, schoolman | a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism. |
| ~ shakespearean, shakespearian | a Shakespearean scholar. |
| ~ sinologist | a student of Chinese history and language and culture. |
| ~ theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer | someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology. |
| ~ valedictorian, valedictory speaker | the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement. |
| ~ vedist | a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas. |
| ~ crichton, james crichton, the admirable crichton | Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582). |
| ~ lorenzo de'medici, lorenzo the magnificent | Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492). |
| ~ edmond malone, edmund malone, malone | English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812). |
| ~ marcus terentius varro, varro | Roman scholar (116-27 BC). |
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