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day student

noun

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as in reader

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Recent Examples of day student The Prince and Princess of Wales continue to remain based in Windsor, living at Adelaide Cottage within Windsor Great Park, and George, Charlotte and Louis are day students at the nearby Lambrook School. — Janine Henni, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024 At the start of the school day students slip their phone into the pouch. — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024 Those admitted can choose to attend either as day students or residential students, staying in a supervised, dorm-like facility across the street from their classrooms at the General Electric Building in Midtown East. — Vogue, 26 Apr. 2024 According to the school’s website, tuition ranges from about $18,000 for day students to $73,000 for international boarding students. — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for day student
Recent Examples of Synonyms for day student
  1. reader
  2. student
  3. schoolchild
  4. schoolboy
  5. schoolgirl
Noun
  • Thinking about misreadings and good faith readings from adult vs young readers, are children the more ideal audience?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • For readers who split rooms, build the intimacy back in on purpose.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of reader
Noun
  • Around the halfway point of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Petya Trofimov — eternal grad student, moral purist, and former tutor to the once wealthy family whose diminution sits at the heart of the play — makes a speech.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Contour Circuits, founded by Secor and former graduate student Jeremy Rurup, received a $150,000 Small Business Technology Transfer contract to advance the technology.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of student
Noun
  • Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
Definition of schoolchild
Noun
  • One picture shows a schoolboy Rogers at the Hawks’ annual presentation evening, wearing a tie in their red and blue colours.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • With the sprightly energy of a schoolboy, Jean-Paul Doron bounds into an empty creek, his red suede shoes scraping pale rocks.
    — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of schoolboy
Noun
  • Though clearly not human, Nanno (Chicha Amatayakul) is just a schoolgirl who wants to have fun.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
  • Among the various aspects of the movie that its English title refers to, not least is the unhinged rampage Lina unleashes at a couple of schoolgirls, a gringa loca on the razor’s edge.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
Definition of schoolgirl

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“Day student.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/day%20student. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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