Other forms: students
A student is a person who is learning at a school or university. A university student, a good student, student loan.
In British use, student usually means somebody at university or college and pupil means somebody at school, though student is spreading to both. Student loan, student union, student discount are all fixed. A student of something also means a serious observer: a student of history. Note mature student; and that the Latin behind it means one who is eager, which is more generous than the word now implies.
1nounstudentA person learning at a school or university.
“She's a student at the university, studying history.”
2nounseriousA serious observer of a subject.
“He is a keen student of Roman history and reads everything about it.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
student is a learner.
Also accepted in games: pupil
Latin studens is the present participle of studere, to be eager or devote oneself. Study, studio and studious come from the same eagerness.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)tewd-
Latin
studēns
Old French
estudiant
Middle English
student
English, today
student
Built from
From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin studēns, present participle of studeō (“dedicate oneself to, study”). Equivalent to stud(y) + -ent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA