Library / English Dictionary

SCHOOLCHILD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person attending school (up through senior high school)

Synonyms:

pupil; school-age child; schoolchild

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("schoolchild" is a kind of...):

spring chicken; young person; younker; youth (a young person (especially a young man or boy))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "schoolchild"):

boarder (a pupil who lives at school during term time)

day boarder (a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home)

latchkey child (a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work))

schoolboy (a boy attending school)

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