different between student vs beginner

English

Etymology

From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin stud?ns, present participle of stude? (“dedicate oneself to, study”). Equivalent to study +? -ent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?stju?.d?nt/, /?st??u?.dn?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?stu.dn?t/, /?stu.d?nt/
• Hyphenation: stu?dent

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.
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).

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• teacher

Derived terms

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

Translations

Anagrams

• stunted

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch student.

Noun

student (plural studente)

1. student

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stud?nt/

Noun

student m anim (feminine studentka)

1. student (academic, at university)

Declension

Synonyms

• študák

Derived terms

• studentský

Related terms

• studentka
• studium
• studovna
• studovat

See also

• žák
• poslucha?

Further reading

• student in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• student in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Latin stud?ns, a present participle of stud?re (“to favour, study”). Compare also student, Student.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sd?u?d?en?d?]

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

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: stu?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

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

1. student

Related terms

• studeren

Latin

Verb

student

1. third-person plural present active indicative of stude?

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Latin stud?ns, present participle of stude?.

Noun

student m (feminine equivalent studentka)

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

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin stud?ns.

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin stud?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??d?nt/ (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.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sty?d??t/

Noun

student m

1. student

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stu.d?nt/

Noun

student m pers (feminine studentka)

1. student (academic, at university)

Declension

Derived terms

• studencki

Further reading

• student in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

student m (plural studen?i, feminine equivalent student?)

1. college student

Declension

See also

• elev
• elev?

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?dent/
• Hyphenation: stu?dent

Noun

stùdent m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. student (usually at a college or university)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??d?nt/

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

Related terms

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

See also

• ta studenten

Tatar

Noun

student

1. student

Declension

References

• universitetn? tämamla?an student ikän

English

Etymology

From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin +? -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b????n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b????n?/

Noun

beginner (plural beginners)

1. Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.

2. Someone who sets something in motion.

3. (theater) An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
   • 1949, Walter Macqueen-Pope, ?Gaiety: Theatre of Enchantment (page 60)

     On the stage, the beginners for the first piece had taken their places — the chorus were there, scared but determined, and in the wings waited Harlequin, in the person of Charles Lyall […]

Synonyms

• (recent starter): amateur, newbie
• See also Thesaurus:beginner

Derived terms

• beginnerish
• beginner's trap

Translations

Further reading

• beginner in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• beginner in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• benigner, bergenin

Dutch

Etymology

From beginnen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????n?r/
• Hyphenation: be?gin?ner
• Rhymes: -?n?r

Noun

beginner m (plural beginners, diminutive beginnertje n)

1. Someone who is just starting something, or has only recently started (similar to English)

Derived terms

• beginnerscursus