Etimology
From Middle English studien, from Old French estudier (Modern French étudier), from the noun estudie, borrowed from Latin studium. Displaced native Old English cneordlæcan.
verb
study (third-person singular simple present studies, present participle studying, simple past and past participle studied)
(usually academic, transitive, intransitive) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
(academic, transitive) To take a course or courses on a subject.
(transitive) To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.
(transitive) To look at minutely.
(transitive) To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
(intransitive) To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
Examples
Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
I need to study my biology notes.
I study medicine at the university.
Biologists study living things.
In 2015, scientists found that 82 percent of glaciers studied in China had decreased in size.
He studied the map in preparation for the hike.
I found a moral first, and studied for a fable.
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you […]
Related words
synonyms
con
elucubrate
research
revise
swot
Etimology
From Middle English studie, from Old French estudie (Modern French étude), borrowed from Latin studium (“zeal, dedication, study”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to push, hit”). Doublet of etude and studio.
noun
study (countable and uncountable, plural studies)
Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
The act of studying or examining; examination.
Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
The human face, bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind.
(music) A piece for special practice; an étude.
(academic) An academic publication.
One who commits a theatrical part to memory.
(chess) An endgame problem composed for artistic merit, where one side is to play for a win or for a draw.
(obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
(archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
Examples
The study of languages is fascinating.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
I made a careful study of his sister.
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: […] . The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study.
The proper study of mankind is man.
Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.
his cheery little study
a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture
Geoffrey's face was a study.
Geoffrey's face was a study in amazement [or in bewilderment, irritation, distress etc.]
That new study on noncommutative symmetries looks promising.
wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I myȝte preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghteWell, said the king, thou mayst take my horse by force, but an I might prove thee whether thou were better on horseback or I. Well, said the knight, seek me here when thou wilt, and here nigh this well thou shalt find me, and so passed on his way. Then the king sat in a study, and bade his men fetch his horse as fast as ever they might.
Well, said the king, thou mayst take my horse by force, but an I might prove thee whether thou were better on horseback or I. Well, said the knight, seek me here when thou wilt, and here nigh this well thou shalt find me, and so passed on his way. Then the king sat in a study, and bade his men fetch his horse as fast as ever they might.
My study was to avoid disturbing her.
Just men they seemd, and all thir study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.
Related words
synonyms
(room for reading and writing): home office
(private male room): cabinet, closet (archaic)
hyponyms
See also Thesaurus:study
coordinate terms
(private male room): boudoir (female equivalent)
related terms
student
studious