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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

pedant
    n 1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book
         learning than they merit [syn: pedant, bookworm,
         scholastic]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pedant \Ped"ant\, n. [F. p['e]dant, It. pedante, fr. Gr.
   paidey`ein to instruct, from pai^s boy. See Pedagogue.]
   1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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            A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. --Shak.
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   2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain
      display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
      --Addison.
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            A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
      [1913 Webster] Pedantic

Thesaurus Results for Pedant:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Babbitt, Gongorist, Marinist, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, euphuist, fine writer, formalist, methodologist, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, perfectionist, phrasemaker, phraseman, phrasemonger, plastic person, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisianist, precisionist, purist, rhetorician, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, wordspinner, yes-man

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