# student

Pronunciation: say "STYOO-duhnt" /ˈstjuː.dn̩t/

## Noun

1. A person who is enrolled and studying at a school, college, or university; in British English often used especially of someone in higher education.
   - Simple: A person who is studying at a school, college, or university.
   - _As a first-year student, she struggled to balance classes and a part-time job._
   - _The museum offers free admission to students with a valid school or college ID card._
2. Someone who devotes attention to learning about a particular subject, whether or not in a formal course.
   - Simple: Someone who keeps learning about a subject because they care about it, even outside school.
   - _She is a lifelong student of history, reading everything she can find about ancient Rome._
   - _The best chess players are students of the game's classic matches._

## Origin

Latin studēns, the present participle of studeō ("to dedicate oneself to, study"), passed through Old French estudiant into Middle English as student. It is equivalent to study + -ent.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/student (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).