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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
student
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a college student/teacher/lecturer
▪ a sixth-form college student
a language student/learner
▪ Language learners often have problems with tenses.
a prospective student/pupil
▪ The college will be holding an open day for prospective students.
a research student
▪ He supervised many research students.
a student card
▪ Entrance is free if you have a student card.
a student demonstration (=by students)
▪ In France, student demonstrations were disrupting university teaching.
a student exchange
▪ Our college arranged student exchanges with four colleges in France.
a student grant
▪ If you are on a low income, you may be able to get a student grant.
a student loan (=money lent to a student to pay for university)
▪ Many college graduates are paying off huge student loans.
a student population
▪ The university has a student population of almost 5000.
a student protest
▪ Student protests were crushed by police.
a student/family counsellor (=helping students or families with problems)
▪ Student counsellors say there's a lot of pressure at college these days.
a university student
▪ Thirty years ago 33% of university students were female.
a work/student visa
▪ They'd sent their daughter abroad on a student visa.
exchange student
▪ an 18-year-old exchange student from France
full-time staff/student etc
▪ They’re looking for full-time staff at the library.
LEP students
▪ The number of LEP students has risen since 1993.
matriculated students
▪ matriculated students
mature student
new member/employee/student etc
▪ training for new employees
school students (also school pupils British English)
▪ Most school students have musical interests of some kind.
student accommodation
▪ Universities have to provide student accommodation for first-year students.
student body
student government
student loan
student teaching
student union
student unrest
▪ Anti-war demonstrations became the focus of student unrest in the early 1970s.
undergraduate student/course/degree etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Girls and boys, women and men, black and white students are differentiated and polarized.
▪ I don't care about rock festivals or black power or student revolutions or going to the Moon.
▪ According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.
▪ Support in 1990 has enabled several thousand black students to continue into higher education.
▪ Not only do black students have problems with white students and white institutions, but splits occur among the black students themselves.
▪ In contrast, discrimination against black students occurs at the initial entry stage into the labour market.
▪ Many of the more intellectually sophisticated black students were embarrassed and even insulted by the crudity of Jeffries' appeal.
fellow
▪ Four of Aikenhead's fellow students whose views on religion Aikenhead claimed were similar to his gave evidence against him.
▪ He seemed to prefer to go travelling with his fellow students.
▪ Be prepared to accept a suggestion from a fellow student.
▪ Mimic only the language helper, not the supervisor or a fellow student.
▪ At college he was held in great affection and esteem by his fellow students.
▪ At college, the questions you and your fellow students pose are as important as the answers supplied.
▪ When I was a student one of my fellow students was a fairly rude, arrogant young man.
high
▪ Taught postgraduate and higher degree students profit from a very wide range of national and international contacts in the department.
▪ But they expressed the greatest concerns about the time it takes for workers to supervise and mentor high school students.
▪ On April 2, as schools and the university reopened, there were minor clashes between high school students and police.
▪ Y., collected stamps and, as a high school honors student, performed science experiments on the conductivity of seawater.
▪ In addition 7,000 high school students from around the world took part in Rotary's youth exchange programme.
▪ In my travels around the country I have met with hundreds of high school students.
▪ In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.
▪ A sweet-voiced high school student named Laura Travis performed the song solo.
mature
▪ Walker suggests that if there is an optimum age for mature students it is likely to be in the late twenties.
▪ I was a mature student of the time so I would be pleased to hear from those graduating prior to 1985.
▪ Some of them were mature students studying medicine, dentistry, law, engineering.
▪ This is particularly true in encouraging the admission of mature students, among whom local applicants are viewed especially sympathetically.
▪ Most research on women in engineering has been done exclusively on either school-leavers or mature students.
▪ The faculty welcomes applications from mature students.
▪ He was a mature student ... I had known him in fact as a child.
▪ The latter argument is based partly on the growing importance to higher education of mature students and continuing education.
medical
▪ Bloomsbury House reacted sceptically with a half-hearted inquiry as to the Home Office attitude to refugee medical students.
▪ The only educational investment most banks are willing to make without government subsidies or guarantees is for medical students.
▪ He sat where medical students usually sat, hands clasped before him, watching the rapid movement of the green-robed figures below.
▪ Almost from the start, as a young medical student, he embraced the patients other doctors tried to avoid.
▪ He also freelanced, collecting bodies from alleys for medical students.
▪ In 1985, only 3 percent of medical students graduated owing more than $ 75, 000.
▪ Amongst the people who came visiting was a young Maidenhead medical student.
▪ Think of a medical student attending a course in the X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary diseases.
undergraduate
▪ Since autumn 1998, full-time undergraduate students have been required to make a means-tested contribution towards tuition fees.
▪ One reason: a sharp drop in the number of undergraduate students choosing economics as a major.
▪ The cards were then presented to six groups of undergraduate students, each group containing four or five members.
▪ Similar changes have already begun in the admissions process for undergraduate students entering in 1998.
▪ But what about the undergraduate students back home who also need stimulation by brilliant people?
▪ Yale has an obligation to its undergraduate students.
▪ Linton lists as his perceived audience undergraduates studying microbiology, together with both undergraduate and postgraduate students of medicine and veterinary science.
▪ Nisbet is furthest removed from the little intellectual worlds of ordinary people-the undergraduate students and citizens.
young
▪ This proved a vain hope, as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.
▪ But their young student athletes might not be as ready as they think.
▪ His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic.
▪ Almost from the start, as a young medical student, he embraced the patients other doctors tried to avoid.
▪ The best players tend to be very young, students in their early 20s, he said.
▪ Startled, his young student did so.
▪ Instead apathy reigns, not least among the young, even students.
▪ And for the young students, it might just take the fun out of learning.
■ NOUN
body
▪ Black-jacketed on the podium, he was on a different plane from the student body, silent and scribbling at his feet.
▪ In schools with an all-white student body, the average ran up to $ 350 allocated per pupil per year.
▪ There is a strong sense of community amongst the self-governing student body.
▪ Assisted by aides from surrounding neighborhoods, teachers at Jackson work valiantly with the diverse student body.
▪ The student body is cosmopolitan, including individuals from all continents.
▪ The makeup of the student body is a prototype of schools that fail.
▪ The student body thereupon came out on strike.
▪ They conduct flight pattern experiments with paper airplanes in science laboratories with the rest of the student body.
college
▪ It would be great if we could achieve that level of non-smoking among school and college students.
▪ Basic computer literacy is becoming an integral part of education for many high school and college students.
▪ Let's look at some typical groups of college students in Britain.
▪ Did a college student serious about building his future at once have to agonize over his future?
▪ The college student counselling services are well-experienced in such matters and can be very supportive.
▪ Karen was not an average City College student, but nobody would have thought to call her privileged.
▪ Equally, the community college students recalled more information when the relative importance of different ideas was made more explicit.
▪ A few college students have gathered in a square to swap soccer trading cards.
graduate
▪ It is not just overseas graduate students who have problems.
▪ As a first-year graduate student, I taught an undergraduate honors seminar on concepts of normality.
▪ A paper for some graduate student, she thought.
▪ I remember one in particular prepared by a graduate student who came from a well-to-do family.
▪ I started compiling an annotated bibliography of the philosophy of mind when I was a graduate student learning the ropes.
▪ As a graduate student at the London School of Economics I was taught that stock markets were efficient.
▪ In one, first-year graduate students were asked to take part in an experiment.
▪ Most of my fellow graduate students could read another language.
law
▪ The mixed honours degrees mentioned below specifically cater for the non-vocational law student.
▪ Well, consider an instant poll of a class of first-year law students, asked Tuesday who they wanted for their dean.
▪ But it could not do without its law students who brought business and fame and brilliance to the town.
▪ Six years before, she had shocked her family and class by marrying a destitute Berkeley law student.
▪ And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford, Greater Manchester.
▪ The law student is not expected to learn every single rule in every single legal topic.
▪ Only 5 percent of our law students are black, and the figure is declining.
loan
▪ This student loans scheme has degenerated into open shambles.
▪ Some of them are still paying off student loans and confronting the increasing costs of educating their own children.
▪ Her student loan ran out earlier last month and she is now £500 overdrawn.
▪ Weld said he thought some federal student loan and job training programs were mired in bureaucracy.
▪ It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan - in total a yearly income of just £2,685.
▪ It borrows money by selling its own debt and invests in student loans.
▪ Picture, page 4 Rethink call from Tory peers follows banks' pull-out Minister in corner over student loans.
▪ Sallie Mae manages one in every three outstanding student loans, or about $ 34 billion, he said.
minority
▪ A drive to attract more ethnic minority students to Longlands College, Middlesbrough, is showing good results.
▪ Among minority students the figures were, predictably, much lower.
▪ Most central city schools serve primarily poor, working class and minority students.
▪ He saw it in the low number of minority students enrolled in honors classes.
▪ Too often minority students themselves are blamed for their failure.
▪ S.-born and minority students to consider careers in science and technology.
▪ Maybe a minority student has not had the same opportunities.
▪ Gross desperately pointed to the work of a lifetime to show that he was scarcely unsympathetic to the plight of minority students.
school
▪ First School students and Junior students pursue separate courses, as they prepare specifically for classroom work.
▪ In my travels around the country I have met with hundreds of high school students.
▪ The future was also theirs: Nonconformist Sunday School students came to 14,091,034.
▪ Connecticut is assessing high school students in math and science based on team-oriented projects that take up to a semester of work.
▪ Only Ray and a high school student named Devon Franklin remained standing in the middle of the nave.
▪ Mary's High School students may apply for one of two $ 500 awards.
▪ Once accepted into the program, high school students complete a core sequence of applied academics and technology courses.
teacher
▪ Even student teachers, who might reasonably be expected to be the least jaundiced and most optimistic informants, aren't happy.
▪ Are there special liability standards for substitute teachers and student teachers?
▪ We used to have student teachers in from what was then called Borough Road Training College.
▪ This doctrine is illustrated by a New York case where a student teacher was injured while participating in a donkey basketball game.
▪ For example, a parallel rise in the number of children entering schools will result in an increased need for student teachers.
▪ Teachers and student teachers from six North County schools are taking part.
▪ The other letter is from Melanie, a 19-year-old student teacher in the village of Umvuma.
▪ I left school in 1941, and went for a year as a student teacher in my father's school.
university
▪ Thirty years ago 33 % of university students were female; now there are more women than men.
▪ The dance given by the university students was held in the upstairs Cyllene Salen.
▪ It's a blow to University students who've had to cancel performances they've worked hard to produce.
▪ He was 22 at the time, still a Stanford University student.
▪ Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas.
▪ When the soldiers blocked university students from entering campuses the next morning, name-calling and fights broke out.
▪ In the fifties university student numbers had risen from 135,000 in 1949 to 220,000 in 1960.
▪ She will be sought after by university students and officers both, but she will prefer the officers.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The purpose of this is usually to allow students the opportunity to use language they know in a less controlled situation.
▪ Is it fair to allow certain students to do less?
▪ There are obvious benefits in allowing each student to go at his own pace.
▪ It will allow students in one school district to work with students in the next town or half way around the world.
▪ Thus allowing the student to be certificated for a breadth of technique in string instruments.
▪ Schools and classrooms can be restructured to allow students greater participation in the valid aspects of the school-governing process.
▪ Vocational Studies allow students to make an informed choice of career options.
▪ They provide expertise across a wide range of topics while allowing the students to contribute to the year-to-year developments in experimental techniques.
ask
▪ Then we asked the students to sit quietly with their eyes closed and think about the costs.
▪ Hold up the circular strip and ask the students how many sides it has.
▪ I came to this conclusion after being asked by a student for some information on Occitan.
▪ First they read them aloud, then Primo asks the other students if they understand.
▪ Remember that you have asked students to put on a public performance.
▪ The statute, in addition to its provision for silent meditation, authorized teachers to ask students whether they wished to pray.
▪ There is nothing worse than asking students to write a memo to Macbeth.
help
▪ It also helps students to expand and develop vocabulary, which is one of the key needs at this level.
▪ What is needed first in each school is a clear sense of direction-an articulated goal to identify and help work-inhibited students.
▪ This brought in loans to help towards student living costs.
▪ In order to help work-inhibited students as much as possible, it is extremely important to rule out any other suspected disorders.
▪ A new way of helping students leave a mark.
▪ This professional year helps students to relate theory to practice and later to make more informed career choices.
▪ Programs may be developed during school hours where professionals help work-inhibited students.
provide
▪ Bed spaces will be provided for 365 students along with creche and laundry facilities.
▪ To provide students with career exploration or specific occupational competencies?
▪ Projects provide the student with the opportunity to demonstrate personal initiative.
▪ They have a wide view to help them look out for the hunters. Provide the students with pictures of animals.
▪ In addition, an updated record is provided for each student following the termly examination committees, showing the student's results.
▪ Apprenticeships and other programs with clear, competency-based standards provide students with real, marketable skills and a credential when they graduate.
▪ It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing.
▪ The rally, according to Merrill, provides students a channel to express feelings of violation and pain.
require
▪ There can be as much discussion as is required and students can be directed to known sources of topics.
▪ In mathematics, it included open-ended problems requiring students to show their work.
▪ Good assignments will also require the student to answer some technical catering questions and resolve syllabus issues.
▪ Are schools required to recognize controversial student groups?
▪ They are usable by any member of staff when not required by students.
▪ This requires that the student understands the terms used, especially technical terms.
▪ It said 78 percent of the schools require prospective students to demonstrate grade-level achievement.
teach
▪ As well as formal sessions there may be opportunities for developing informal and spontaneous bedside teaching both patients and students.
▪ He took up a job at the City Day College teaching day-release students.
▪ I have taught many students by these two criteria.
▪ By the case method, both cheap and easy, one can teach two hundred students as easily as twenty.
▪ That is the first lesson I teach my students at Bart's.
▪ It had developed a list of workforce-readiness objectives to teach students before they began working at the company.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an A student
▪ I was an A student, on my way to medical school.
an apt pupil/student
▪ But once at university I was an apt student.
▪ With every move she gave a little gasp, as her body, previous experience or not, proved an apt pupil.
fee-paying student/patient
fellow workers/students/countrymen etc
▪ As the permanent workplace becomes a shifting work space, daily face-to-face contact with fellow workers is increasingly sporadic.
▪ Host a quiz night for your fellow students.
▪ Not all of my fellow students were as pleased with me, though.
▪ Religion may affect employees' attitudes to their jobs and their relationships with expatriates and fellow countrymen.
▪ She and her fellow students were told that their mission was to free the peasants from feudalism.
▪ Stallabrass seems alienated from the labour of his fellow workers.
▪ To help you relate to your fellow students. 2.
▪ Workshops are an ideal opportunity to meet tutors and exchange ideas with fellow students.
model wife/employee/student etc
▪ Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student.
▪ First, she had to have earned good grades; second, she had to have been a model student.
▪ He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.
▪ How is that model employee of yours?
▪ In all she was a model wife, and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
▪ Two other girls were model students.
▪ Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.
▪ Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
people/women/students etc of color
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Student leaders had organized a sit-in to protest against the war.
▪ a farewell party for the overseas students
▪ extra help for disabled students
▪ He was accused of attacking a fellow student.
▪ Law students always have a lot of work to do.
▪ Mira hadn't seen Brad since their student days at the University of Wisconsin.
▪ Seventy percent of the university's business students have job offers by graduation.
▪ She's a student at Cornell University.
▪ The study found that drug use among high school students is rising.
▪ There are only 15 students in each class.
▪ We have a large number of mature students here, some with small children.
▪ We would welcome suggestions from both teachers and students.
▪ What was the social life like when you were a student nurse?
▪ Wiggins was a student of theology for many years before leaving the seminary.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the first meeting with the students we discussed with them the arguments for this way of working and secured their agreement.
▪ How can all that knowledge be condensed into a fifty-minute lecture to students who know almost nothing about it?
▪ Others are fortunate to find supportive faculty, administrators, and fellow students.
▪ Relying on math formulas or drills in class, the study suggests, bores many students and undermines their performance.
▪ Studies had shown that the more assessment tests a student failed, the likelier that student was to drop out.
▪ The device ensures that the students have the correct information and avoids copious note-taking.
▪ To get a better grade the student must take it from one of the students above by out-performing him or her.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Student

Student \Stu"dent\, n. [L. studens, -entis, p. pr. of studere to study. See Study, n.]

  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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
student

late 14c., from Old French estudiant "student, scholar, one who is studying" (Modern French étudiant), noun use of past participle of estudiier, from Medieval Latin studiare "to study," from Latin studium (see study (v.)). Student-teacher of a teacher in training working in a classroom is from 1851, American English.

Wiktionary
student

n. 1 A person who study a particular academic subject. 2 (context figuratively English) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not. 3 A person enrolled at a university. 4 (context chiefly North America English) A schoolchild.

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WordNet
student

  1. n. 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]

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Wikipedia
Student
Student (disambiguation)

A student is a learner, or someone who attends a school or takes classes.

Student may also mean:

  • The pseudonym of William Sealy Gosset
    • Student's t-test, a statistical technique
    • Student's t-distribution, a probability distribution
    • Studentization, the process of adjusting a statistic for an estimate of its standard deviation
      • Studentized range
      • Studentized residual
  • General Kurt Student
  • The Student's, former name of the Japanese musical duo marble
  • Student (degree), an educational qualification in some countries.
  • Student magazine, a Canadian student experience magazine
  • Student (newspaper), a newspaper of the University of Edinburgh
  • Student (SFI newspaper), the Malayalam-language newspaper of the Students Federation of India
  • STUDENT (computer program), an early artificial intelligence program.
  • The Student (2011 film), a 2011 Argentine film
  • Student (film), a 2012 Kazakhstan film
  • At Christ Church, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, a Fellow
Student (magazine)

Student is a magazine about Canadian student lifestyle. It was started by students at the University of Western Ontario. It is published monthly in print and online and features student writers, photographers, models, and designers.

STUDENT (computer program)

''ENGINEER ''' is an early artificial intelligence program that solves algebra word problems. It is written in Lisp by Daniel G Bobrow as his PhD thesis in 1964 (Bobrow 1964). It was designed to read and solve the kind of word problems found in high school algebra books. The program is often cited as an early accomplishment of AI in natural language processing.

Student (film)

Student is a 2012 Kazakhstani drama film directed by Darezhan Omirbaev. It is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

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Usage examples of "student".

At that time, the Aboriginal allowance exceeded the allowance most students got.

The department never expected any of their Aboriginal students to do well at tertiary studies.

She had the careful almost accentless voice of the language student, and her phrases seemed to have been adopted whole from the speech of the grownups around her.

Most new students find that silent prayer is the best method for achieving this state.

The student must be on his guard against adding a very large excess, which is the commoner error.

Miss Hillyard angrily adduced instances extending over the past three terms of History students whose work had been interfered with by what looked like deliberate persecution.

There are lots of talented students who will help you develop your artwork, logos and advertising materials.

After listening, however, to the affectionate remonstrances of the faculty and board of trustees, who well knew the value of his wisdom in the supervision of the college and the power of his mere presence and example upon the students, he resumed his labours with the resolution to remain at his post and carry forward the great work he had so auspiciously begun.

As a student of military history, Mihajlovic found a fine irony in the fact that a medieval castle, a type of fortification long obsolete in an age of airmobile troops and nuclear weapons, could once again play a part in a modern military operation.

There were five of them, led by Carlos Alcazar, the oldest and most feared of all the students.

Professor von Bunge, whose name is honoured by all students of the action of drugs, has satisfied himself that alcoholism in the father is a great cause of incapacity to nurse in daughters.

The Report has no scientific basis whatever and has been riddled with criticism by expert students of every kind, including not merely students of alcoholism but also Professor Alfred Marshall of Cambridge, the greatest English-speaking economist of the time, who has shown that there are no grounds for the assumptions made by Professor Pearson in that part of his argument which is based upon the economic efficiency of drinking and non-drinking parents.

Though, like a descendant of Archbishop Sharp, and a winner of the archery medal, I boast myself Sancti Leonardi alumnus addictissimus, I am unable to give a description, at first hand, of student life in St.

Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied with a friend whom he had just rencountered, a young gentleman, his name Alec Bannon, who had late come to town, it being his intention to buy a colour or a cornetcy in the fencibles and list for the wars.

At the high table the senior students, those about to graduate into the Game, showed more decorum, eating quietly under the watchful eyes of Gamesmaster Mertyn, King Mertyn, and Gamesmaster Armiger Charnot.