study

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a room used for reading and writing and studying

   They knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.

2. 2
   noun

   a state of deep mental absorption

   I am in a deep study.

3. 3
   noun

   a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique

   a study in spiccato bowing

4. 4
   noun

   a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

   this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale

5. 5
   noun

   someone who learns quickly and easily, as the lines for a part in a play

   The new understudy is a quick study.

6. 6
   verb

   learn by reading books

   We are studying geology in my room.

7. 7
   verb

   be a student

   follow a course of study

8. 8
   verb

   to think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

   I studied my options carefully.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English studie, from Old French estudie (Modern French étude), borrowed from Latin studium (“zeal, dedication, study”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to push, to hit”). Doublet of etude and studio.