Pedant definitions

Pedant

1) Academic bore 2) Bluestocking 3) Book-smart person 4) Bookish bore 5) Bookish one 6) Bookish sort 7) Bookworm 8) Dogmatic one 9) Dogmatic teacher 10) Dryasdust 11) Educated show-off 12) Finical scholar 13) Formalist 14) French word used in English 15) Grammar stickler 16) Hairsplitter 17) Hairsplitting scholastic
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Pedant

1) Bookworm 2) Prig 3) Prude 4) Purist 5) Traditionalist
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Pedant

A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of 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 older mid-15th century Italian s......
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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.
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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 school i'th' church.» Shak. 2.
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pedant

[n] - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
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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. Someone who makes an excessive or inappropriate d...
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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 on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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