1. pedant - Noun
2. pedant - Adjective
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHistorians have seen him as a "pedant and a bore", his letters offering neither the running political analysis of a Cicero or the conscientious reportage of a Pliny. Source: Internet
He was neither a pedant nor a bigot. Source: Internet
Although many translations were already available, often produced by trained Classicists, Morris claimed that his unique perspective was as "a poet not a pedant". Source: Internet