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22 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• pedant n. A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary…
• pedant n. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
• pedant n. (Archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
• pedant adj. Pedantic.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Czech - Serbo-croatian
  • pedant n. Pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning).
• Middle french
  • pedant n. Teacher; tutor; educator.
  • pedant n. Pedant.
• Polish
  • pedant n. Neat freak, out-and-outer, pedant, prig, stickler.
• Romanian
  • pedant adj. Pedantic.
• Swedish
  • pedant n. A pedant (someone pedantic).

— English words, defined in French —

• pedant n. Pinailleur, ergoteur.
• pedant n. Pédant.

— In German —

• pedant Adj. Österreichisch, abwertend: etwas übertrieben genau nehmend; kleinlich.
• Pedant S. Ein in übertriebener Weise genauer, kleinlicher Mensch.

— In Dutch —

• pedant n. (Verouderd) iemand die tot taak heeft kinderen te onderwijzen…
• pedant n. (Pejoratief) iemand die zichzelf beter en wijzer vindt dan andere mensen.
• pedant bijv. (Pejoratief) naar eigen opvatting beter en wijzer dan andere mensen.
• pedant bijv. (Pejoratief) schoolmeesterachtig.

— In French —

• pédant adj. Qui fait étalage de son savoir de manière prétentieuse.
• pédant n.m. (Désuet) Éducateur, maître d’école.
• pédant n.m. Celui qui fait étalage de son savoir et qui parle doctoralement.
• pédant n.m. Celui qui affecte de faire la leçon à tout le monde.

36 English words from 10 English definitions

and Archaic concerned educator especially excessive formal freak knowledge learning makes Neat Neat␣freak out out-and-outer outer overly pedant pedantic person points prig regarding rules schoolmaster show someone stickler teacher tedious their trivial tutor vocabulary who with

11 English words from 12 foreign definitions

dan die faire fait Mensch monde parle son tot tout tout␣le␣monde

47 foreign words from 12 foreign definitions

abwertend affecte andere beter Celui de␣manière Désuet doctoralement école Éducateur eigen Ein ergoteur étalage etwas faire␣la␣leçon genau genauer heeft iemand kinderen kleinlich kleinlicher leçon maître manière mensen naar nehmend onderwijzen opvatting Österreichisch Pédant Pejoratief Pinailleur prétentieuse qui savoir schoolmeesterachtig taak übertrieben übertriebener Verouderd vindt Weise wijzer zichzelf

37 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

pedants pedanty pedantic pedantly pedantry pedantess pedantick pedantics pedanties pedantise pedantism pedantize pedantical pedanticly pedantised pedantises pedantisms pedantized pedantizes pedantries pedantesses pedanticism pedanticize pedantising pedantizing pedantocrat pedantically pedanticisms pedanticized pedanticizes pedanticness pedantocracy pedantocrats pedanticizing pedantocratic pedanticalness pedantocracies

13 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

copedants outpedants unpedantic nonpedantic non-pedantic outpedanted outpedanting overpedantic quadrupedants quadrupedantic overpedantically quadrupedantical rufous-capped␣antshrike

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

copedant outpedant quadrupedant

21 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ant Ant ANT -ant an't ant- ant. Ant. a'n't dan Dan DAN -dan Dan. Dant Eda EDA ped PED -ped peda

13 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ade Ade ADE -ade dep DEP dép dep. nad NAD nade NADEP TNA

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

panted pentad

28 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

anted-up anted␣up antidep Daponte depaint depants deplant inadept notepad note␣pad pædant painted pandect Pandeth pantied pantsed patined Patnode pat.␣pend. pedants pedanty pendant pentads planted tenidap tonepad unadept untaped

21 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

adept anted atend Dante denat denat. entad NADEP naped Paden Pande paned pated paten Penta penta- ptdna ptDNA taped Tenda Tepan

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

cedant red␣ant

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

pædant pendant

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