different between student vs study

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?di/
• Rhymes: -?di

Etymology 1

From Middle English studien, from Old French estudier (Modern French étudier) from Medieval Latin studi?re and Latin stud?re, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to push, hit”). Displaced native Old English cneordlæcan.

Verb

study (third-person singular simple present studies, present participle studying, simple past and past participle studied)

1. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.

2. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.

3. To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.

4. To look at minutely.

5. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
   • July 10, 1732, Jonathan Swift, letter to Mr. Gay and The Duchess of Queensberry

     I found a moral first, and studied for a fable.

6. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.

   • And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you […]

Conjugation

Synonyms

• con
• elucubrate
• research
• revise
• swot

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English studie, from Old French estudie (Modern French étude), from Latin studium (“zeal, dedication, study”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to push, hit”). Doublet of studio.

Noun

study (countable and uncountable, plural studies)

1. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
2. The act of studying or examining; examination.
3. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
   • 1762, Edmund Law, An extract from A serious call to a devout and holy life

     The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study.
5. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.

   • his cheery little study

6. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.

7. The human face, bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind.

8. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.
9. (academic) An academic publication.

10. One who commits a theatrical part to memory.
11. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
12. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.

Synonyms

• (private male room): cabinet, closet (archaic)

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:study

Coordinate terms

• (private male room): boudoir (female equivalent)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Dusty, Dutys, Duyst, dusty