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pedant (noun)

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  • pedant — ► NOUN ▪ a person excessively concerned with minor detail or with displaying technical knowledge. DERIVATIVES pedantic adjective pedantically adverb pedantry noun. ORIGIN French pédant, probably related to PEDAGOGUE(Cf. ↑pedagogue) …   English terms dictionary

  • pedant — noun affecter, bluffer, closed minded person, dogmatist, narrow minded person, opinionated person, philosophaster, pretender, sciolist Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • pedant — noun (C) someone who pays too much attention to rules and details: She is something of a pedant when it comes to intellectual argument. pedantry noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • pedant — noun /ˈpɛdənt/ a) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 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… …   Wiktionary

  • pedant — noun Etymology: Middle French, from Italian pedante Date: 1588 1. obsolete a male schoolteacher 2. a. one who makes a show of knowledge b. one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge c. a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pedant — noun pedants insist that the twenty first century starts with 2001 Syn: dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire, perfectionist; quibbler, hair splitter, casuist, sophist; informal nitpicker …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • Pedant — A pedant, or pædant, is a person who is overly concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes a show of learning . The corresponding (obsolete) female noun is pedantess. EtymologyThe English language word pedant comes from the French pédant …   Wikipedia

  • pedant — UK [ˈped(ə)nt] / US noun [countable] Word forms pedant : singular pedant plural pedants showing disapproval someone who gives too much importance to details and formal rules, especially of grammar …   English dictionary

  • pedant — [ pɛd(ə)nt] noun a person who is excessively concerned with minor detail or with displaying technical knowledge. Derivatives pedantry noun Origin C16: from Fr. pédant, from Ital. pedante, perh. from the first element of L. paedogogus (see… …   English new terms dictionary

  • pedant — /ˈpɛdnt / (say pednt) noun 1. someone who makes an excessive or tedious show of learning or exacting precision; someone who possesses mere book learning without practical wisdom. 2. someone who displays a slavish attention to rules, details, etc …  

  • pedant — ped|ant [ pednt ] noun count someone who gives too much importance to details and formal rules, especially of grammar. This word shows that you dislike people like this …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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