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    PEDANT

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they meritplay

    Synonyms:

    bookworm; pedant; scholastic

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("pedant" is a kind of...):

    bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedant"):

    purist (someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words))

    Derivation:

    pedantic (marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects)

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