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  1. pedants: Merriam-Webster
  2. pedants: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pedants: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pedant's, Pedants, pedant's, pedants: Wordnik
  5. pedants: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pedants: Wiktionary
  7. pedants: Dictionary.com
  8. pedants: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pedants: Legal dictionary

(Note: See pedant as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pedant)

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.
▸ Also see pedant


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