[げんがくしゅみ, gengakushumi] (n) pedantry; display of one's learning; being of a pedantic disposition [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain
display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he.
--Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster] Pedantic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pedant
n 1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book
learning than they merit [syn: {pedant}, {bookworm},
{scholastic}]
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Pedant /peːdant/
pedant
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย