Pedant- somebody who displays his or her knowledge ostentatiously, Puritans- a member of a group of Protestants in 16th- and 17th-century England and 17th-century America who believed in strict religious discipline and called for the simplification of acts of worship, Puritan- somebody who lives by a strict moral or religious code, especially somebody who is suspicious of pleasure, Millennium- a period of 1,000 years, especially a period that begins or ends in a year that is a multiple of 1,000