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pedant

Noun CEFR B1
ˈpɛdənt

Definitions

  1. A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
  2. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  3. A teacher or schoolmaster.
    archaic

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Examples

“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 the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

pedantess Pedantic Pedantically pedanticalness pedanticism Pedanticly

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