English noun: pupil |
1. | pupil (person) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution |
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| Synonyms | educatee, student |
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| Broader (hypernym) | enrollee |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | art student, auditor, catechumen, college boy, college man, collegian, crammer, Etonian, Ivy Leaguer, law student, major, medical student, medico, neophyte, nonachiever, nonreader, overachiever, passer, scholar, seminarian, seminarist, sixth-former, skipper, underachiever, underperformer, withdrawer, Wykehamist |
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| Member meronym | teacher-student relation |
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2. | pupil (body) the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot |
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| Broader (hypernym) | aperture |
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| Part meronym | iris |
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3. | pupil (person) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) |
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| Synonyms | school-age child, schoolchild |
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| Broader (hypernym) | spring chicken, young person, younker, youth |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | boarder, day boarder, latchkey child, schoolboy |
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