Student vs Candidate - What's the difference?
student | candidate |
A person who studies a particular academic subject.
(figuratively) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not.
A person enrolled at a university.
(chiefly, North America) A schoolchild.
A person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.
A participant in an examination.
Something or somebody maybe suitable for or in danger of something or somebody.
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As nouns the difference between student and candidate
is that student is a person who studies a particular academic subject while candidate is a person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.student
English
(wikipedia student)Noun
(en noun)- A student of philosophy.
- He is a student of life.
- The students were out raising funds for rag week.
Synonyms
* (person who studies a particular subject) scholar * (person seriously devoted to some subject) devotee * (schoolchild) pupil, schoolchild * discipleAntonyms
* teacherAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----candidate
English
Noun
(en noun)Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}