pedant (n)
bookworm#1 (n)
scholastic (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 18
def a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Outgoing links
Hypernym scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student
Derivationally related form pedant → pedantic
Hyponym purist
Incoming links
Derivationally related form pedantic → pedant
Hypernym purist
Hyponym scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student

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