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pedant
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pedant
[n] - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=pedant
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Pedant
Ped'ant noun [ French pédant , Italian pedante , from Greek ... to instruct, from pai^s boy. See Pedagogue .] 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [ Obsolete] Dryden. « A pedant that keeps a sch... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/40
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pedant
bookworm 1 scholastic noun a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pedant
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Pedant
• (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. • (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/pedant/
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pedant
pedant 1. Formerly, a schoolmaster; a pedagogue; a tutor. 2. One who makes a display or affectation of learning, especially of book learning; also, an erudite person who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the use or presentation of his knowledge; a formalist or precisionist in teaching or scholarship. 3.... Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2749/8
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Pedant
A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes a show of his or her learning. ==Etymology== The English language word "pedant" comes from the French pédant (used in 1566 in Darme & Hatzfeldster`s Dictionnaire général de la langue française) or its o... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant
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pedant
1) Bookish one 2) Bookish sort 3) Bookworm 4) Dogmatic teacher 5) Hairsplitter 6) Hairsplitting scholastic 7) Intellectual show-off 8) Intellectual showoff 9) Know-it-all, maybe 10) One who goes strictly by the book 11) Pro... Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/pedant/1
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