Meaning of PEDANT
| Pronunciation: | | 'pudant
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit |
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| | Synonyms: | | bookworm, scholastic |
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| | See Also: | | intellect, intellectual, purist | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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