student

«student» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who learns at a school, college or university — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (student, students)

meaning for a pupil

1) A student is a person who learns at a school, college or university. tree →

2) A student of something is a person who studies it carefully, at any age. tree →

sense in the lessons

people counted in classes or schools; equal groups of students; in the USA «student» is used for all ages, in the UK younger ones are often called «pupils»; phrases «student council», «new student», «exchange student»

examples

• There are 25 students in each class. tree →
• 6 students left. tree →
• Each student got 3 pencils. tree →
• How many students are there in all? tree →
• She is a student at the university. tree →
• Every student needs a library card. tree →
• The student council planned the fair. tree →
• The teacher helped the new student find her desk. tree →
• He is a keen student of birds. tree →
• An exchange student from Ireland joined our class. tree →
• The student's turn came to watch. tree →

note

A thing counted. «students in each class» × classes. Trap: the number of things each student got is a rate, not a number of students.

In the corpora

• It was reported that some students were wrongly accused of cheating by AI detectors; keeping drafts and notes helps show honest work.
• "Mature" in adverts and dating means older, for example "mature students".
• "Struggling learner" means a weak student.
• Judo and other martial arts teach students how to fall safely.
• Then China broke apart under warlords, students marched in 1919, and Japan invaded, in 1931 and fully in 1937.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «student» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.