Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who studies; an examiner or investigator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A student.

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  • noun One who studies.

Etymologies

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to study + -er.

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Examples

  • The studier is a part of that which is being studied.

    Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson

  • A Jewish teenage boy, a lover of escape artists and a studier of Houdini, has escaped from Nazi Prague and is now in the Big Apple, where he's in full pursuit of the American Dream.

    Forgiving the Governor of South Carolina Heather Kirn Lanier 2011

  • Most of the kids in my classes were of the brainiac variety, and I was more of an independent studier.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • Thomas Lindhqvist & Karl Lidgren, “Modeller för förlängt producentansvar” (“Models for Extended Producer Responsibility,” in Swedish), 26 October 1990, published by the Ministry of the Environment in “Från vaggan till graven — sex studier av varors miljöpåverken” (“From the Cradle to the Grave — six studies of the environmental impact of products,” in Swedish), DC 1991: 0.

    The West’s Garbage Dump : Law is Cool 2008

  • Most of the kids in my classes were of the brainiac variety, and I was more of an independent studier.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • The resourceful mycologist (that's a fungi-studier) Paul Stamets has made cardboard packaging that can be planted and will grow into trees.

    Life Box: Paul Stamets' Cardboard Packaging That Grows Into Trees 2010

  • Most of the kids in my classes were of the brainiac variety, and I was more of an independent studier.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • As a studier of the media and an armchair pop psychologist, I can't help but wonder if the missteps by General McChrystal weren't subconsciously planned.

    Lauren Ashburn: Self Sabotage: General McChrystal Unglued 2010

  • Most of the kids in my classes were of the brainiac variety, and I was more of an independent studier.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • And yet here is Michael Pollan, journalist, studier of how and what we eat, passionate guy, suggesting that home-cooked food can cure everything from the obesity epidemic to social alienation.

    Karen Stabiner: Small Good News: Cooking Up An Answer To Corporate Cuisine 2009

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