often attributive
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a group of college students
She is a student at Georgetown University.
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Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
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Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
The Kansas students seated in both the north and south lower-level bleachers of Allen Fieldhouse chanted, ‘(Bleep) Dan Hurley,’ several times in the first half of UConn’s 61-56 men’s basketball victory over the Jayhawks on Tuesday night.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 Dec. 2025
This picture taken on March 10, 2014 shows students at Hailiang International School lighting candles to pray for the passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Zhuji, in China’s Zhejiang province.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
Braun said the district is required to follow the law of a 22-1 ratio of students to teachers in classrooms.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Dec. 2025
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“Student.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/student. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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student
noun
stu·dent
ˈst(y)üd-ᵊnt 
chiefly Southern -ənt
1
: scholar sense 1
especially
: one who attends a school or college
2
: one who studies
a student of life
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