study – English noun declension

English noun forms of study

Noun: study
Singularstudy
Pluralstudies

Sample Sentences

  • The study of languages is fascinating.
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant;[…]. [1661, Fell, John, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond, page 334:]
  • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it. [1699, Temple, William, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:]
  • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. [2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:]
  • I made a careful study of his sister.
  • Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. [2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:]
  • The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study. [1762, Law, Edmund, An extract from: A serious call to a devout and holy life:]
  • The proper study of mankind is man. [1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle II, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:]
  • Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.
  • his cheery little study [1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:]
  • I was asked round once for dinner, and my tongue was hanging out at the sheer scale of it – complete with three bathrooms, two studies, and a sauna. [2025 August 14, Anniki Sommerville, “I’m sick of my rich friends pretending that they’re struggling”, in The i Paper:]
  • a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture
  • Geoffrey's face was a study.
  • Geoffrey's face was a study in amazement [or in bewilderment, irritation, distress etc.]
  • That new study on noncommutative symmetries looks promising.
  • wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I myȝte preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte (Well, said the king, thou mayst take my horse by force, but an I might prove thee whether thou were better on horseback or I. Well, said the knight, seek me here when thou wilt, and here nigh this well thou shalt find me, and so passed on his way. Then the king sat in a study, and bade his men fetch his horse as fast as ever they might.) [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XX, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:]
  • When they had stood for a while without speech, gazing over the sea, Gro spake and said, “Consider how as day now dieth in yonder chambers of the west, so hath the glory departed from Witchland.” ¶ But the Red Foliot answered him not, being in a study. [1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 36:]
  • My study was to avoid disturbing her.
  • Just men they seemd, and all thir study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works. [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'studie', Middle English Nouns 'studie', Latin Nouns 'studium'.

Verbs referencing "study"

English Nouns skux.