gymnasiastn.
/dʒɪmˈneɪzɪast/ 1. A student in a (Continental) gymnasium.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupils of other types of school
softa1603
gymnasiast1828
Philanthropinist1842
public school boy1844
minder1864
lycéen1883
polytechnician1904
comprehensive1947
outward-bounder1961
1828 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula I. iii. iii. 316 Secret societies..under the name of Tugenbunde, Gymnasiasts, and other denominations.
1882 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 443 We have been told that the gymnasiast soon does as well as the real-scholar in the laboratory.
1886 Athenæum 27 Mar. 433/3 The ‘gymnasiasts’ in Amsterdam..performed the ‘Antigone’ of Sophocles in the original.
2. A gymnast.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > gymnast
gymnast1594
turner1854
gymnasiast1857
boneless wonder1931
1857 ‘C. Bede’ Mr. Verdant Green Married xii. 97 The vaulting-horse on whose wooden back the gymnasiast sprang at a bound.
1858 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine (1860) v. §2. 265 A few years ago a professional gymnasiast sprang from bank to bank.
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