Usually means: Obsessive about minor details, accuracy.
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  1. pedant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pedant: Merriam-Webster
  3. pedant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pedant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pedant: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pedant: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pedant, pedant: Wordnik
  8. pedant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pedant: Wiktionary
  10. pedant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pedant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pedant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pedant, pedant: Dictionary.com
  14. pedant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Pedant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pedant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pedant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pedant: Rhymezone
  19. Pedant, pedant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pedant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pedant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pedant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pedant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pedant: Legal dictionary

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  1. pedant: Encyclopedia

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  1. PEDANT: Acronym Finder
  2. pedant: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedant: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedant: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See pedants as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
noun:  A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
noun:  (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
adjective:  Pedantic.
verb:  (rare, humorous) To be or act as a pedant.

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