Disciple vs. Student — What's the Difference?

A personal follower of Christ during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles.

A student is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution and who is under learning with goals of acquiring knowledge, developing professions and achieving employment at desired field. In the broader sense, a student is anyone who applies themselves to the intensive intellectual engagement with some matter necessary to master it as part of some practical affair in which such mastery is basic or decisive.

One who embraces and assists in spreading the teachings of another.

One who is enrolled or attends classes at a school, college, or university.

An active adherent, as of a movement or philosophy.

One who studies something

Often Disciple One of the original followers of Jesus.

An attentive observer

Disciple A member of the Disciples of Christ.

A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.

A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.

A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.

An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.

(in particular) A person who is enrolled at a college or university primary]] or secondary school.

(Ireland) A wretched, miserable-looking man.

A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.

To convert (a person) into a disciple.

One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.

To train, educate, teach.

A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.

A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.

To teach; to train.

To punish; to discipline.

To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.

Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another