learner

Roget category 541

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.9. Modes of communication
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#541. Learner

noun

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.

verb

learn — practise.

adjective

in statu pupillari [Lat.], in leading strings.

phrase

practise makes perfect.

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