student
student
noun
OPAL S
/ˈstjuːdnt/
1 a person who is studying at a university or college
a college/university student
a graduate student
a medical/law student
international students (= who come to study from other countries)
She's a student at Oxford.
He's a third-year student at the College of Art.
a student loan (= money lent to students to pay for their studies)
He is here on a student visa.
a plan to reduce student debt
student fees (= to pay for the cost of teaching)
a student nurse/teacher
a dramatic increase in student numbers
I did some acting in my student days.
Culture student life
TOPICS Education A1
Collocations
adjective
brilliant
good
straight-A
verb + student
enroll
educate
instruct
student + noun
nurse
teacher
numbers
preposition
as a student
2 a person who is studying at a school, especially a secondary school
a 15-year-old high school student
a teacher who engages her students
Synonyms student
TOPICS Education A1
3 ​student of something (formal) a person who is very interested in a particular subject
a keen student of human nature
He was a deeply observant man, a close student of the natural world.
Word Origin
late Middle English: from Latin student- ‘applying oneself to’, from the verb studere, related to studium ‘painstaking application’.