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Student

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.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Auditor 76% connected

A hearer or listener.

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Catechumen 76% connected

One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Ch…

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Collegian 76% connected

A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.

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Crammer 76% connected

One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.

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Grind 76% connected

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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Major 76% connected

Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.

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Neophyte 76% connected

A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Ch…

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Passer 76% connected

One who passes; a passenger.

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Scholar 76% connected

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

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Seminarian 76% connected

Alt. of Seminarist

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Seminarist 76% connected

A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

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Skipper 76% connected

One who, or that which, skips.

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Sponge 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

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Withdrawer 76% connected

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

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Educate 74% connected

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

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Educate 74% connected

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

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Learner 92% connected

One who learns; a scholar.

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Pupil 92% connected

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scholar 92% connected

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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