Thesaurus results for SCHOOLCHILD

schoolchild

noun

Definition of schoolchild

as in schoolboy

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Recent Examples of schoolchild Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity. — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024 Every Japanese schoolchild knows the real historical character and the peaceful era that followed. — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024 Every Texas schoolchild deserves the best education possible. — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024 Go to Howe Caverns, the field-trip destination of every upstate New York schoolchild. — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 22 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for schoolchild

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Noun

And why is Owen Wilson grinning like an awkward schoolboy at Zeus’s naked daughters?

— Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of schoolboy

Noun

The reader is spun into this frantic poem without a chance to escape, just like the speaker.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
If that approach takes hold, readers can expect shorter guest lists, fewer back-to-back weekends and more counter-offers, like a coffee instead of a party or a January dinner instead of a December one.

— Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of reader

Noun

The students said in their briefing that top police officials and the intelligence agencies had served Vucic's party during the protests in violation of the law.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
The third victim was a student pilot visiting from the United Kingdom.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of student

Noun

Minnesota schools get a total of $58 million from the fund today, but the constitutional amendment would raise the contribution to schools from $68 per pupil to $101 per pupil.

— Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
In each of the future belligerent countries, elite schools would have long regarded it as their duty to instill in their pupils, the officer class in the making, a martial spirit.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of pupil

Noun

Of the high school students, 161 are boarders, 23 are day students.

— Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
Prince George, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7, began at Lambrook when their family moved from London to Windsor in 2022, enrolling as day students at the private school in Berkshire.

— Janine Henni, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025

Definition of day student

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