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Meaning of pedant | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

ˈpɛdənt

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية المتحذلق متحذلق متشدّق

Bosanski pedant педант

Čeština pedant puntičkář

Dansk pedant

Deutsch Paragraphenreiter Pedant Pedantin Prinzipienreiter

Ελληνικά δοκησίσοφος σχολαστικός

Esperanto pedanto

Español pedante

Suomi pedantti saivartelija viisastelija

Français pédant pédant pédante

Hrvatski pedant педант

Italiano cervellona cervellone pedante

日本語衒学者

한국어 공론가

Македонски педант

Nederlands weetal wijsneus

Polski pedant pedantka

Português pedante

Русский педант педа́нтка

Српски pedant педант

Svenska pedant

Українська педант

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

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

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