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Antonyms for pupil
ˈpyu pəlpupil
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pupil
The primary sense of a scholar is one who is being schooled; thence the word passes to denote one who is apt in school work, and finally one who is thoroughly schooled, master of what the schools can teach, an erudite, accomplished person: when used without qualification, the word is generally understood in this latter sense; as, he is manifestly a scholar. Pupil signifies one under the close personal supervision or instruction of a teacher or tutor. Those under instruction in schools below the academic grade are technically and officially termed pupils. The word pupil is uniformly so used in the Reports of the Commissioner of Education of the United States, but popular American usage prefers scholar in the original sense; as, teachers and scholars enjoyed a holiday. Those under instruction in Sunday-schools are uniformly designated as Sunday-school scholars. Student is applied to those in the higher grades or courses of study, as the academic, collegiate, scientific, etc. Student suggests less proficiency than scholar in the highest sense, the student being one who is learning, the scholar one who has learned. On the other hand, student suggests less of personal supervision than pupil; thus, the college student often becomes the private pupil of some instructor in special studies. For disciple, etc., compare synonyms for ADHERENT.
Antonyms:
dunce, fool, idiot, idler, ignoramus, illiterate person
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student, pupil, educateenoun
a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
Synonyms:
bookman, scholar, schoolchild, scholarly person, student, school-age child, educateepupilnoun
the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot
Synonyms:
school-age child, educatee, student, schoolchildschoolchild, school-age child, pupilnoun
a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
Synonyms:
school-age child, schoolchild, student, educatee
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
pupilnoun
Synonyms:
scholar, learner, disciple, catechumen, neophyte, tyro, novice, probationer
How to use pupil in a sentence?
We fear reprisals from the gangs. Any decision you take and they don't like, like disciplinary action against a pupil, can bring a threat.
California has one of the lowest per-pupil spending among all of the states, which just means there's fewer resources day to day to make any kind of change such as the kinds of changes that we've had to make happen.
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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