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Pedant

Pedant Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Pedant? [n] a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit Synonyms \| Synonyms for Pedant: bookworm \| scholastic Related Terms \| Find terms related to Pedant: anal character \| Babbitt \| bluestocking \| bourgeois \| burgher \| compulsive character \| conformer \| conformist \| conventionalist \| euphuist \| fine writer \| formalist \| Gongorist \| Marinist \| methodologist \| Middle American \| middle-class type \| model child \| organization man \| parrot \| perfectionist \| Philistine \| phrasemaker \| phraseman \| phrasemonger \| plastic person \| precieuse \| precieux \| precisian \| precisianist \| precisionist \| purist \| rhetorician \| sheep \| square \| teenybopper \| trimmer \| wordspinner \| yes-man See Also \| intellect \| intellectual \| purist Pedant In Webster's Dictionary \Ped"ant\, n. [F. p['e]dant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. ? to instruct, from pai^s boy. See {Pedagogue}.] 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] --Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. --Shak. 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. --Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. --Goldsmith.

Pedant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pedant?

[n] a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pedant: bookworm | scholastic

See Also | intellect | intellectual | purist

Pedant In Webster's Dictionary

\Ped"ant\, n. [F. p['e]dant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. ? to
instruct, from pai^s boy. See {Pedagogue}.]
1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] --Dryden.

         A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. --Shak.

2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain
   display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
   --Addison.

         A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he.
                                               --Goldsmith.

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