pupil

Noun
  1. is a type of: enrollee - a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study
    subtypes:
    • art student - someone studying to be an artist
    • auditor - a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit
    • catechumen, neophyte - a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist
    • college boy, college man, collegian - a student (or former student) at a college or university
    • crammer - a student who crams
    • etonian - a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College
    • ivy leaguer - a student or graduate at an Ivy League school
    • law student - a student in law school
    • major - a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
    • medical student, medico - a student in medical school
    • nonreader - a student who is very slow in learning to read
    • overachiever - a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated
    • passer - a student who passes an examination
    • scholar - a student who holds a scholarship
    • seminarian, seminarist - a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)
    • sixth-former - a student in the sixth form
    • skipper - a student who fails to attend classes
    • nonachiever, underachiever, underperformer - a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates
    • withdrawer - a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled
    • wykehamist - a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College
    belongs to: teacher-student relation - the academic relation between teachers and their students
    same as: educatee, student
  2. is a type of: aperture - a natural opening in something
    is a part of: iris - muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye
  3. is a type of: spring chicken, young person, younker, youth - a young person (especially a young man or boy)
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: school-age child, schoolchild

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