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Webster 1913 Edition
Pedant
Ped′ant
,Noun.
1.
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
A
pedant
that keeps a school i’th' church. Shakespeare
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pedant
PED'ANT
, n.1.
A schoolmaster.2.
A person who makes a vain display of his learning.Definition 2024
Pedant
Pedant
pedant
pedant
English
Noun
pedant (plural pedants)
- (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, vol. 1 ch. 24:
- I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, vol. 1 ch. 24:
- A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.
- (slang) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
Derived terms
Usage notes
Translations
person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
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person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary
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Adjective
pedant (not comparable)
See also
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pedant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Pedant in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
pedant (comparative pedanter, superlative pedantst)
| Inflection of pedant | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | pedant | |||
| inflected | pedante | |||
| comparative | pedanter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | pedant | pedanter | het pedantst het pedantste |
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| indefinite | m./f. sing. | pedante | pedantere | pedantste |
| n. sing. | pedant | pedanter | pedantste | |
| plural | pedante | pedantere | pedantste | |
| definite | pedante | pedantere | pedantste | |
| partitive | pedants | pedanters | — | |
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowing from Italian pedante.
Noun
pedant m (plural pedants)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Pedant, from French pédant, from Italian pedante, from Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pědant/
- Hyphenation: pe‧dant
Noun
pèdant, pedȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling пѐдант, педа̏нт)
- pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)
Declension
Declension of pedant
References
- “pedant” in Hrvatski jezični portal