student synonyms

student

n.

learner, pupil, scholar, disciple, undergraduate, coed*, collegian*, novice*, graduate student, schoolchild*, schoolboy*, schoolgirl*, docent*, apprentice*, registrant*, trainee*, tutee*, autodidact*, schoolmate*, classmate*, seminarian*, preschooler, cadet*, freshman*, sophomore*, junior*, senior*, lowerclassman*, upperclassman*, postgraduate*, doctoral candidate, bookworm*, grind*, nerd*, preppy*, undergrad*; see also follower, freshman.

student is applied either to one attending an institution above the elementary level or to one who is making a study of a particular subject a student of social problems; pupil is applied either to a child in school or to a person who is under the personal supervision of a teacher Heifetz was a pupil of Leopold Auer; scholar, orig. equivalent to pupil, is now usually applied to one who has general erudition or who is highly versed in a particular branch of learning a noted classical scholar

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