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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Student \Stu"dent\, noun [L. studens, -entis, p. pr. of studere to study. See {Study}, noun]
1. 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.
Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book. --Shak.
2. One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
student
noun
1: a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution [syn: {pupil}, {educatee}]
2: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines [syn: {scholar}, {scholarly person}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "student": academician, admirer, apprentice, bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, commentator, critic, devotee, disciple, evaluator, follower, genius, giant of learning, grind, humanist, learned clerk, learned man, learner, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, observer, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, pupil, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolboy, schoolgirl, schoolman, swat, swot, swotter, trainee, undergraduate, walking encyclopedia
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
STUDENT D.G. Bobrow 1964. Early query system. Sammet 1969, p.664.
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