disciple
A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches othersA person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
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» The shy disciple mumbled his answer.
warrenbisch · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 sensesA person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
Jünger, Jüngerin
учени́кučeník, после́довательposlédovatelʹ, сторо́нникstorónnik
someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
Jünger, Jüngerin
после́довательposlédovatelʹ, сторо́нникstorónnik, апо́столapóstol
у́ченьúčenʹ, учени́цяučenýcja
(Ireland)A wretched, miserable-looking man.
Examples
33 sentencesThe shy disciple mumbled his answer.
Today is the disciple of yesterday.
His disciples recalled what he had said.
However the disciples awoke to that danger.
I'll never be your perfect little disciple.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), fFrom Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.
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Forms
plural: disciplesSynonyms
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