pedant

1. n. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Source: opted

2. n. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Source: opted

3. n. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit Source: wordnet

4. 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak. 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. Goldsmith. Source: webster

5. Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling,a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedanticdescription; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak. Source: adambom

6. n:100 n. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit Source: ecdict

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