Definition of Pedant

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Definition of Pedant
	Pedant A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Related Definitions: Air, An, Display, Knowledge, Learning, Of, On, One, Pedagogue, Pretender, Schoolmaster, Superior, To, Vain, Who

Pedant Quotations

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
George Weinberg

Pedant Translations

pedant in German is Pedant

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