Definitions for "Pedant"
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
A pedant, or pædant, is a formalist or precisionist in teaching or scholarship. The corresponding female noun is pedantess. The term comes from the French pédant (1566 in Darme & Hatzfeldster's Dictionnaire général de la langue français) or its source Italian pedante "teacher," schoolmaster, pedant.
One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
a person who overrates or overuses book learning or pure technical knowledge