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say it: PED-uhnt
pedant is a noun meaning "a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit". It is pronounced /ˈpɛdənt/ — PED-uhnt. It carries one recorded sense.
a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pedant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.