student

See also: Student, stüdent, and študent

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.dn̩t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dn̩t/, /ˈstu.dənt/
• Hyphenation: stu‧dent

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Noun

student (plural students)

1. A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.

   She is a student of human interactions.

   He is a student of life.

   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii], page 271, column 1:

     I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor leane enough to bee thought a good Studient : 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.

2. A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.

   The students were out raising funds for rag week.

   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).
   • a. 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, “Essay XII”, in The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith, volume III, Edinburgh: Geo. Mudie, published 1792, page 71:

     In general, alſo, it may be obſerved, that a greater degree of gentility is affixed to the character of a ſtudent in 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, quoting Francis Parkman, Autobiography, quoted in “Spiritual Growth”, in A Life of Francis Parkman, Toronto: George N. Morang and Company, published 1900, page 321:

     In behalf of manhood and common sense, he would protest against such a conclusion ; and if any pale student, 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.

Synonyms

• (person who studies a particular subject): candlewaster, scholar; devotee, disciple

Antonyms

• teacher

Derived terms

• ex-student
• studenthood
• studential
• studentish
• studentless
• studently
• studenty

Translations

person who studies a subject

• Afar: barteyna
• Afrikaans: student (af)
• Albanian: student (sq)
• Amharic: ተማሪ (tämari)
• Arabic: طَالِب‎ (ar) m (ṭālib), طَالِبَة‎ f (ṭāliba), تِلْمِيذ‎ m (tilmīḏ), تِلْمِيذَة‎ f (tilmīḏa)

  Egyptian Arabic: طالب‎ m (ṭāleb), طالبة‎ f (ṭāleba)

• Armenian: ուսանող (hy) (usanoł)
• Assamese: ছাত্ৰ (satro) (male), ছাত্ৰী (satri) (female), ছাত্ৰ-ছাত্ৰী (satro-satri)
• Asturian: estudiante m or f
• Azerbaijani: tədqiqatçı
• Basque: ikasle
• Belarusian: студэ́нт m (studént), студэ́нтка f (studéntka)
• Bengali: ছাত্র (chatr), তালিব (talib), শাগরেদ (shagred)
• Bole: pukara
• Bulgarian: студе́нт m (studént), студе́нтка f (studéntka)
• Burmese: ကျောင်းသား (my) (kyaung:sa:), ကျောင်းသူ (my) (kyaung:su) (female)
• Catalan: estudiant (ca) m or f
• Cherokee: ᏗᏕᏠᏆᏍᎩ (didetloquasgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 學生, 学生 (hok⁶ saang¹, hok⁶ sang¹)

  Mandarin: 學生 (zh), 学生 (zh) (xuéshēng)

  Min Nan: 學生 (zh-min-nan), 学生 (ha̍k-seng)

  Wu: 學生, 学生 (hhoq san)

• Cornish: studhyor m
• Czech: student (cs) m, studentka (cs) f
• Danish: studerende (da) c
• Dutch: student (nl) m, studente (nl) f
• Esperanto: studento (university, ♂♀), virstudento (university, explicitly ♂), studentino (eo) (university, explicitly ♀), gestudentoj (university, collective ♂♀), studanto (♂♀), virstudanto (explicitly ♂), studantino (explicitly ♀), gestudantoj (collective ♂♀)
• Estonian: üliõpilane, tudeng, õpilane, ^{(please verify)} õppija
• Faroese: lesandi m
• Finnish: opiskelija (fi), tutkija (fi)
• French: étudiant (fr) m, étudiante (fr) f, élève (fr) m or f
• Galician: estudante m or f
• Georgian: სტუდენტი (sṭudenṭi)
• German: Student (de) m, Studentin (de) f; Lernender m Lernende f
• Greek: μαθητής (el) m (mathitís), μαθήτρια (el) f (mathítria), σπουδαστής (el) m (spoudastís), σπουδάστρια (el) f (spoudástria), ^{(please verify)} μελετητής (el) m (meletitís)

  Ancient: μαθητής m (mathētḗs), μαθήτρια f (mathḗtria)

• Gujarati: વિદ્યાર્થી (vidyārthī)
• Hausa: ɗalibi (ha)
• Hawaiian: haumāna
• Hebrew: סְטוּדֶנְט‎ (he) m (studént), סְטוּדֶנְטִית‎ f (studéntit)
• Hiligaynon: estudyante, palatuon
• Hindi: विद्यार्थी (hi) m or f (vidyārthī), छात्र (hi) m or f (chātra), स्टूडेंट m (sṭūḍeṇṭ) (colloquial), तालिब (hi) m (tālib), तालिबा (hi) f (tālibā), छात्रा f (chātrā), शिष्य (hi) m (śiṣya), शिष्या (hi) f (śiṣyā)
• Hungarian: hallgató (hu), tanuló (hu), diák (hu)
• Icelandic: nemandi (is) m
• Indonesian: murid (id), pelajar (id), siswa (id) m, siswi (id) f
• Irish: mac léinn m (male or female)
• Italian: studente (it) m, studentessa (it) f, ^{(please verify)} studioso (it) m, ^{(please verify)} studiosa (it) f
• Japanese: 学生 (ja) (がくせい, gakusei)
• Kalmyk: оютн (oyutn)
• Kannada: ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ (kn) (vidyārthi)
• Kazakh: студент (kk) (stwdent), оқушы (kk) (oqwşı)
• Khmer: កូនសិស្ស (koun səh), និស្សិត (km) (nɨhsət)
• Korean: 학생 (ko) (haksaeng) (學生 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قوتابی‎ (ku) (qutabî), تەلەبە‎ (ku) (telebe)

  Northern Kurdish: qutabî (ku), telebe (ku), şagirt (ku)

• Kyrgyz: студент (ky) (student), окуучу (ky) (okuuçu)
• Lao: ນັກສຶກສາ (lo) (nak sưk sā)
• Latin: studēns m or f or n, discipulus (la) m, discipula f
• Latvian: students m, studente f
• Ligurian: studénte
• Lithuanian: studentas m, studentė f
• Luhya: mwanafunzi
• Luxembourgish: Student m

• Macedonian: студе́нт m (studént), студе́нтка f (studéntka)
• Malay: pelajar, murid
• Malayalam: വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥി m (vidyār‍tthi), വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥിനി f (vidyār‍tthini)
• Maltese: student m, studenta f
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᠴᡳᠰᡳ (tacisi), ᡧᠠᠪᡳ (šabi)
• Maori: ākonga
• Mongolian: оюутан (mn) (oyuutan), сурагч (mn) (suragch)

  Uyghurjin: ᠣᠶᠤᠲᠠᠨ (oyutan), ᠰᠤᠷᠤᠭᠴᠢ (suruɣči)

• Navajo: ółtaʼí
• Nepali: विद्यार्थी (vidyārthī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: student m

  Nynorsk: student (nn) m

• Occitan: estudiant (oc) m
• Old English: leornere m
• Old Saxon: ^{(please verify)} giungaro m, jungaro m
• Oriya: ଛାତ୍ର (or) (chatrô), ଚାଟ (or) (caṭô)
• Ottoman Turkish: تلمیذ‎ (tilmiz), طالب‎ (talib), درسخوان‎ (darshuan)
• Pashto: محصل‎ (ps) m (mohasél), طالب‎ (ps) (tāléb)
• Persian: دانشجو‎ (fa) (dânešju), طالب‎ (fa) (tâleb)
• Plautdietsch: Scheela m
• Polish: student (pl) m, studentka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estudante (pt) m or f, aluno (pt) m, aluna f, estudioso (pt) m, estudiosa f
• Quechua: yachakuq (qu)
• Romanian: student (ro) m, studentă (ro) f
• Romansch: student m, studenta f (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader), studentessa f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• Russian: студе́нт (ru) m (studént), студе́нтка (ru) f (studéntka), уча́щийся (ru) m (učáščijsja), уча́щаяся (ru) f (učáščajasja)
• Sanskrit: शिष्य (sa) m or f (śiṣya), छात्र (sa) (chātra), विद्यार्थिन् (sa) m (vidyārthin)
• Scots: collegianer
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: студент m

  Roman: student (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ශිෂ්යයා (śiṣyayā)
• Slovak: študent (sk) m, študentka f
• Slovene: študent (sl) m, študentka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: student m, studentka f

• Spanish: estudiante (es) m or f
• Swahili: mwanafunzi (sw), mwanachuo (sw), mwanagenzi (sw), mwanafunzi (sw)
• Swedish: student (sv) c, studentska (sv) c (female), elev (sv) c
• Tagalog: estudyante (tl), mag-aaral
• Tajik: донишҷӯ (tg) (donišjü), толиб (tolib)
• Tamil: கற்பவன் (ta) (kaṟpavaṉ)
• Tatar: студент (student)
• Telugu: విద్యార్థి (te) m (vidyārthi)
• Thai: นักเรียน (th) (nák-riian)
• Tibetan: སློབ་མ (slob ma), སློབ་ཕྲུག (slob phrug)
• Tigrinya: ተመሃራይ (tämäharay)
• Turkish: öğrenci (tr)
• Turkmen: student, talyp, okuwçy
• Ukrainian: студе́нт m (studént), студе́нтка f (studéntka)
• Urdu: طالِب عِلم‎ (t̤ālib ilm), چھاتر‎ m or f (chātra), طالب‎ m (tālib)
• Uyghur: ئوقوغۇچى‎ (oqoghuchi), ئىستودېنت‎ (istodënt), ستودېنت‎ (stodënt), تالىپ‎ (talip)
• Uzbek: student (uz), talaba (uz) m, o'quvchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: học sinh (vi) (學生), sinh viên (vi) (生員)
• Volapük: studan (vo) (♂♀), histudan (♂), jistudan (♀), studanef (collective ♂♀), histudanef (collective ♂), jistudanef (collective ♀)
• Welsh: myfyriwr (cy) m, myfyrwraig f
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Wutunhua: lhoma
• Yiddish: סטודענט‎ m (student), תּלמיד‎ m (talmid)
• Zazaki: taleb, musayer c, musayoğ (diq), musayoğ (diq) c
• Zhuang: lwghag, hagseng

person enrolled at a school, university or other education institution

• Arabic: طَالِب‎ (ar) m (ṭālib), طَالِبَة‎ f (ṭāliba), تِلْمِيذ‎ m (tilmīḏ), تِلْمِيذَة‎ f (tilmīḏa)

  Egyptian Arabic: طالب‎ m (ṭāleb), طالبة‎ f (ṭāleba)

• Catalan: alumne (ca) m, estudiant (ca) m or f
• German: Lernender m, Lernende f (only used as an umbrella term)

• Hindi: तालिब (hi) m (tālib), तालिबा (hi) f (tālibā)
• Irish: dalta m
• Quechua: yachachisqa
• Spanish: alumno (es) m, estudiante (es) m or f, discente (es) m, educando (es) m or f
• Sylheti: ꠍꠣꠔ꠆ꠞ (sátr)

person enrolled at a university

• Arabic: طَالِب‎ (ar) m (ṭālib), طَالِبَة‎ f (ṭāliba)
• Armenian: ուսանող (hy) (usanoł)
• Azerbaijani: tələbə (az)
• Basque: ikasle
• Bulgarian: студе́нт m (studént), студе́нтка f (studéntka)
• Catalan: alumne (ca) m, estudiant (ca) m or f, universitari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 學生, 学生 (hok⁶ saang¹, hok⁶ sang¹)

  Mandarin: 學生 (zh), 学生 (zh) (xuéshēng)

  Min Nan: 學生 (zh-min-nan), 学生 (ha̍k-seng)

• Czech: student (cs) m, studentka (cs) f
• Danish: studerende (da) c
• Dutch: student (nl) m, studente (nl) f
• Esperanto: studento (university, ♂♀) , virstudento (university, explicitly ♂), studentino (eo) (university, explicitly ♀), gestudentoj (university, collective ♂♀)
• Estonian: üliõpilane
• Finnish: opiskelija (fi), ylioppilas (fi)
• French: étudiant (fr) m, étudiante (fr) f
• German: Student (de) m, Studentin (de) f; (officialese now often) Studierender (de) m, Studierende (de) f; (rarely) Hochschüler (de) m, Hochschülerin (de) f
• Greek: φοιτητής (el) m (foititís), φοιτήτρια (el) f (foitítria)
• Hawaiian: haumāna
• Hiligaynon: estudyante, palatuon
• Hindi: विद्यार्थी (hi) m or f (vidyārthī), छात्र (hi) m or f (chātra), तालिब (hi) m (tālib), तालिबा (hi) f (tālibā), छात्रा f (chātrā)
• Hungarian: egyetemista (hu), főiskolás (hu)
• Indonesian: mahasiswa (id) m, mahasiswi (id) f
• Irish: mac léinn m
• Italian: studente (it) m, studentessa (it) f
• Japanese: 学生 (ja) (がくせい, gakusei)
• Kazakh: студент (kk) (stwdent)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قوتابی‎ (ku) (qutabî), تەلەبە‎ (ku) (telebe)

• Latin: discipulus (la) m, discipula f, discipulum n, discens m or f or n, studens m or f or n
• Malay: mahasiswa (ms)
• Malayalam: വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥി m (vidyār‍tthi), വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥിനി f (vidyār‍tthini)
• Nepali: विद्यार्थी (vidyārthī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: student m

  Nynorsk: student (nn) m

• Pashto: محصل‎ (ps) m, محصله‎ f
• Persian: دانشجو‎ (fa)
• Polish: student (pl) m, studentka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estudante (pt) m or f, académico (pt) m (Portugal), académica f (Portugal), acadêmico (pt) m (Brazil), acadêmica (pt) f (Brazil), aluno (pt) m, aluna f
• Romanian: student (ro) m, studentă (ro) f
• Russian: студе́нт (ru) m (studént), студе́нтка (ru) f (studéntka)
• Scottish Gaelic: oileanach m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: student m, studentka f

• Spanish: estudiante (es) m or f, alumno (es) m, alumna (es) f, universitario (es) m
• Swahili: mwanafunzi (sw), mwanachuo (sw)
• Swedish: student (sv) c, studentska (sv) c (female)
• Tagalog: estudyante (tl), mag-aaral
• Telugu: విద్యార్థి (te) m (vidyārthi)
• Thai: นักศึกษา (th) (nák-sʉ̀k-sǎa)
• Turkish: üniversiteli (tr), üniversite öğrencisi
• Urdu: طالِب عِلم‎ (tālib ilm), چھاتر‎ (chātra)
• Vietnamese: sinh viên (vi) (生員)
• Volapük: studan (vo) (♂♀), histudan (♂), jistudan (♀), studanef (collective ♂♀) , histudanef (collective ♂), jistudanef (collective ♀)
• Welsh: myfyriwr (cy) m, myfywraig f

schoolchild, pupil, person attending school — see schoolchild

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} discipulus (la) m, ^{(please verify)} discipula f
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} оюутан (mn) (oyuutan), ^{(please verify)} сурагч (mn) (suragch)

• Yoruba: ^{(please verify)} akẹ́kọ̀ọ́

Anagrams

• stunted

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch student.

Noun

student (plural studente)

1. student

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstudɛnt/

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Noun

student m anim (feminine studentka)

1. student (academic, at university)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	student	studenti
genitive	studenta	studentů
dative	studentu, studentovi	studentům
accusative	studenta	studenty
vocative	studente	studenti
locative	studentu, studentovi	studentech
instrumental	studentem	studenty

Synonyms

• študák

Derived terms

• studentský

Related terms

• studentka
• studium
• studovna
• studovat

See also

• žák
• posluchač

Further reading

• student in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• student in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Etymology

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

Declension of student

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	student	studenten	studenter	studenterne
genitive	students	studentens	studenters	studenternes

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old French estudiant (“student”), from Latin studens, present participle of studere (“to study”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: stu‧dent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

student m (plural studenten, diminutive studentje n, feminine studente)

1. student

Related terms

• studeren

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Latin

Verb

student

1. third-person plural present active indicative of studeō

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Latin studēns, present participle of studeō.

Noun

student m (feminine equivalent studentka)

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

Declension

Declension of student

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	student	studenta	studenty
Genitive	studenta	studentowu	studentow
Dative	studentoju	studentoma	studentam
Accusative	studenta	studentowu	studenty, studentow
Instrumental	studentom	studentoma	studentami
Locative	studenśe	studentoma	studentach

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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.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin studēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʉːdɛnt/ (example of pronunciation)

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.

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /styˈdɛŋt/

Noun

student m

1. student

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

student m pers (feminine studentka)

1. student (academic, at university)

Declension

declension of student

	singular	plural
nominative	student	studenci
genitive	studenta	studentów
dative	studentowi	studentom
accusative	studenta	studentów
instrumental	studentem	studentami
locative	studencie	studentach
vocative	studencie	studenci

Derived terms

• studencki

Further reading

• student in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Noun

student m (plural studenți, feminine equivalent studentă)

1. college student

Declension

Declension of student

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) student	studentul	(niște) studenți	studenții
genitive/dative	(unui) student	studentului	(unor) studenți	studenților
vocative	studentule		studenților

See also

• elev
• elevă

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

stùdent m (Cyrillic spelling сту̀дент)

1. student (usually at a college or university)

Declension

Declension of student

	singular	plural
nominative	student	studenti
genitive	studenta	studenata
dative	studentu	studentima
accusative	studenta	studente
vocative	studente	studenti
locative	studentu	studentima
instrumental	studentom	studentima

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɵˈdɛnt/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

student c

1. a student; someone who studies an academic subject
2. a person enrolled at a university
3. (before 1968) person with a diploma from a gymnasium (upper secondary school)
4. (colloquial) person who has finished studies at a gymnasium

Declension

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

Related terms

• studentexamen
• studentkår
• studentmössa
• studentorkester
• studentoverall
• studentsång

See also

• ta studenten

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Tatar

Noun

student

1. student

Declension

    declension of student

Nominative	student
Genitive	studentnıñ
Dative	studentqa
Accusative	studentnı
Locative	studentta
Ablative	studenttan

References

• universitetnı tämamlağan student ikän