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Definition of pedant in English: pedantnoun ˈpɛd(ə)ntˈpɛdnt A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning. the royal palace (some pedants would say the ex-royal palace) Example sentencesExamples - They could easily go to sleep to the murmuring oohs and aahs of connoisseurs and pedants.
- Some pedants do let their love for rules get in the way of free-flowing language.
- Donoghue's a true historian, whose period detail is exacting enough to please the most pedantic of pedants, while her style displays an intimacy with the past that's both unpretentious and modern.
- I like that sentence and I don't care what grammatical pedants think.
- The intrusive comma changes the sense, and gives the dedicated pedant a linguistic heart attack.
- Publishing on-line without proofreading is probably not the greatest of sins, but for a grammar pedant such as I, it's pretty transgressive nonetheless.
- Suddenly, the grammar pedants were springing out of the woodwork from every direction and, whether we liked it or not, we were all being given lessons in how we should use our English.
- I'm usually one of those ‘language is a living thing’ guys in these matters, laughing at the grammar pedants and vocabulary fascists.
- The questioner is shouted down, accused of being a grammatical pedant.
- No one makes fun of them for talking about adding mice to the cache, because only scholars and pedants remember the word's source.
- Muriel Gray may be wrong-headed at times and her sentence structure may offend grammatical pedants but at least she is thought - provoking and often entertaining.
- For too long, we linguistic pedants have cringed, watching this phrase used, misused, and abused, again, and again, and again.
- If we're going to play the grammatical pedant, then let's be careful to get it right.
Synonyms dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire precisionist, perfectionist quibbler, hair-splitter, casuist, sophist, fault-finder, caviller, carper informal nitpicker archaic pettifogger rare precisian, Dryasdust
Origin Late 16th century: from French pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from the first element of Latin paedogogus (see pedagogue). page from late 16th century: The page of a book goes back to Latin pagina ‘page’, from pangere ‘to fasten’. The connection between fastening and the page of a book is probably because pagina was originally used of a scroll, made up of strips of papyrus glued together, and then transferred to the page of a book when books replaced scrolls. Before the 16th century older forms, such as pagne, were in use. The other page (Middle English) is first found in the sense ‘youth, male of uncouth manners’ and comes via Old French from Greek paidíon ‘boy, lad’. Page boys at a wedding date from the late 19th century. Paidíon is also the source of the word-element paed- or ped found in words such as paediatrics ‘the medical care of children’ [M19], paedophile ‘child-lover’ [M20], and pedagogue (Late Middle English) formed from the Greek words for ‘child’ and ‘leader’, which was the word in ancient Greece for the slave who took a child to school, but became a term for a teacher in Latin. The Italian pedante ‘teacher’, which entered the language in the late 16th century as pedant may be from pedagogue. See also encyclopedia, pageant
Definition of pedant in US English: pedantnounˈpɛdntˈpednt A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning. the royal palace (some pedants would say the ex-royal palace) Example sentencesExamples - For too long, we linguistic pedants have cringed, watching this phrase used, misused, and abused, again, and again, and again.
- Suddenly, the grammar pedants were springing out of the woodwork from every direction and, whether we liked it or not, we were all being given lessons in how we should use our English.
- The intrusive comma changes the sense, and gives the dedicated pedant a linguistic heart attack.
- Publishing on-line without proofreading is probably not the greatest of sins, but for a grammar pedant such as I, it's pretty transgressive nonetheless.
- Donoghue's a true historian, whose period detail is exacting enough to please the most pedantic of pedants, while her style displays an intimacy with the past that's both unpretentious and modern.
- I like that sentence and I don't care what grammatical pedants think.
- Some pedants do let their love for rules get in the way of free-flowing language.
- No one makes fun of them for talking about adding mice to the cache, because only scholars and pedants remember the word's source.
- If we're going to play the grammatical pedant, then let's be careful to get it right.
- They could easily go to sleep to the murmuring oohs and aahs of connoisseurs and pedants.
- The questioner is shouted down, accused of being a grammatical pedant.
- Muriel Gray may be wrong-headed at times and her sentence structure may offend grammatical pedants but at least she is thought - provoking and often entertaining.
- I'm usually one of those ‘language is a living thing’ guys in these matters, laughing at the grammar pedants and vocabulary fascists.
Synonyms dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire
Origin Late 16th century: from French pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from the first element of Latin paedogogus (see pedagogue). |