pedant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pedant	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pedant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pedant n a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit Synonym(s): pedant, bookworm, scholastic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pedant \Ped"ant\, n. [F. p[82]dant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. [?] to instruct, from pai^s boy. See {Pedagogue}.] 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.