student

Other forms of student

plural

students·

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.

Questions about student

What does student mean?

student means "a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in student?

student has 2 syllables: stu-dent. The stress falls on "stu". In IPA it is /ˈstudənt/.

What is another word for student?

Close synonyms include pupil, educatee, scholar, scholarly person, bookman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is student a common word?

student is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.