Новый большой англо-русский словарь - pedant
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pedant
1. педант 2. доктринер
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n. 1 a person who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view. 2 a person who rates academic learning or technical knowledge above everything. 3 a person who is obsessed by a theory; a doctrinaire. Derivatives pedantic adj. pedantically adv. pedantize v.intr. & tr. (also -ise). pedantry n. (pl. -ies). Etymology: F p{eacute}dant f. It. pedante: app. formed as PEDAGOGUE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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noun Etymology: Middle French, from Italian ~e Date: 1588 1. obsolete a male schoolteacher 2. a. one who makes a show of knowledge b. one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge c. a formalist or precisionist in teaching ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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(pedants) If you say that someone is a pedant, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects. I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n someone who pays too much attention to rules and details (She is something of a pedant when it comes to intellectual argument.) - pedantry n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1588, from M.Fr. pйdant, from It. pedante "teacher, schoolmaster," apparently an alteration of pedagogos (see pedagogue). Meaning "person who trumpets minor points of learning" first recorded 1596. Pedantic formed in Eng. c.1600. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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