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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: pedant (0.02268 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to pedant.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pedant
pedant
n : a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book
learning than they merit [syn:
bookworm,
scholastic]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pedant
Pedant
\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.
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A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. --Shak.
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2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain
display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
--Addison.
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A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he.
--Goldsmith.
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