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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.

A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.

A private or public teacher.

An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.