Learner vs. Student — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Learner and Student
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Definitions
Learner➦
To gain knowledge of or skill in through study, instruction, or experience
Learned how to sail.
Learned the new computer program.
Learn to speak Hindi.
Student➦
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.
Learner➦
To become aware or informed of; find out
Learned the truth about him.
Learned that it was best not to argue.
Student➦
One who is enrolled or attends classes at a school, college, or university.
Learner➦
To fix in the mind or memory; memorize
Learned the speech in a few hours.
Student➦
One who studies something
A student of contemporary dance.
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Learner➦
(Nonstandard) To cause to acquire knowledge; teach.
Student➦
An attentive observer
A student of world affairs.
Learner➦
(Obsolete) To give information to.
Student➦
A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
She is a student of human interactions.
He is a student of life.
Learner➦
To gain knowledge, information, comprehension, or skill
Learns quickly.
Learned about computers.
Learned of the job through friends.
Student➦
A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
The students were out raising funds for rag week.
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Learner➦
One who is learning.
She’s still a learner, so she’s prone to making mistakes.
Cambridge University Press has released a new series aimed at young learners with epilepsy.
Student➦
(in particular) A person who is enrolled at a college or university primary]] or secondary school.
Learner➦
One who learns; a scholar.
Student➦
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.
Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book.
Learner➦
Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
Student➦
One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.
Learner➦
Works for an expert to learn a trade
Student➦
A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
Student➦
A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
