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law student

law student

40 2.6
A student who studies law at a university or law school
  • noun
  • /lɔː stjuːdənt/
translation icon : estudiante de Derecho
  • As a law student, she spends most of her time reading case studies and preparing for exams.
  • first-year law student
  • law students learn
  • law students at university

She's a bodybuilder, but she's also a law student at Duke University.

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Examples

  • Even when we were law students, I had you marked for great things.

  • I'm a law student at Penn.

  • I see it happen to law students, and I really want to kind of talk about why you should not let that happen.

  • Was he a law student at the time?

  • A law student active in politics.

  • I thought you were a law student who wanted to be a lawyer.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • I'm a law student here, remember?

  • Given that women now constitute more than 50% of all law students, with people of color,

    Academic text (2017)
  • Once Warner sees me as a serious law student, he'll want me back.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • We were law students at UCLA.

Synonyms

student
vslaw student
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A person who studies at a school or university

is focused on a specific subject about rules courts and legal practice
university student
vslaw student
12 1.0

A person who studies at a university to get a degree

focuses on a specific subject about rules courts and legal practice

How Expert

legal expert
21 4.0
lawyer
1.0
paralegal
  • Specialized
32 6.6
law student
40 2.6

Surface Forms

law student singular
law students plural

Morphology

law + student

The meaning 'a student who is studying law' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'law' (the field of legal study) with 'student' (someone engaged in learning). This noun–noun composition is a common and predictable pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.

Etymology

Law student comes from the words law, meaning 'the rules of a country', and student, meaning 'a person who studies'. Picture someone sitting with big law books in a library — that image explains why it means 'a student who is studying law'.