abecedarian as a noun: - 1
Abecedarian - 2
abecedarian as an adjective: - 1
abecedarian
noun
1 abecedarian
A novice learning the rudiments of some subject.
Roget 541:
learner,
scholar,
student,
pupil;
apprentice,
prentice†,
journeyman;
articled clerk;
beginner,
tyro,
amateur,
rank amateur;
abecedarian,
alphabetarian†;
alumnus,
eleve [Fr.].
recruit,
raw recruit,
novice,
neophyte,
inceptor†,
catechumen,
probationer;
seminarian,
chela,
fellow-commoner;
debutant.
[apprentice medical doctors]
intern;
resident.
schoolboy;
fresh,
freshman,
frosh;
junior soph†,
junior;
senior soph†,
senior;
sophister†,
sophomore;
questionist†.
[college and university students]
undergraduate;
graduate student;
law student;
medical student;
pre-med;
post-doctoral student,
post-doc;
matriculated student;
part-time student,
night student,
auditor.
[group of learners]
class,
grade,
seminar,
form,
remove;
pupilage
etc.
(learning)
539.
disciple,
follower,
apostle,
proselyte;
fellow-student,
condisciple†.
[place of learning]
school
etc.
542.
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Roget 540:
teacher,
trainer,
instructor,
institutor,
master,
tutor,
director,
Corypheus,
dry nurse,
coach,
grinder,
crammer,
don;
governor,
bear leader;
governess,
duenna [Sp.];
disciplinarian.
professor,
lecturer,
reader,
prelector†,
prolocutor,
preacher;
chalk talker,
khoja†;
pastor
etc.
(clergy)
996;
schoolmaster,
dominie [Fr.],
usher,
pedagogue,
abecedarian;
schoolmistress,
dame,
monitor,
pupil teacher.
expositor
etc.
524;
preceptor,
guide;
guru;
mentor
etc.
(adviser)
695;
pioneer,
apostle,
missionary,
propagandist,
munshi†,
example
etc.
(model for imitation)
22.
professorship
etc.
(school)
542.
tutelage
etc.
(teaching)
537.
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2 Abecedarian
A 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge.
adjective
1 abecedarian
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