Category:Pedant

Ped"ant, n. Etym: [f. pédant, it. pedante, fr. Gr. pai^s boy. See Pedagogue.]

1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak.

2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display Of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. Goldsmith.