About The Word Pupil
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Pupil
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What's The Definition Of Pupil?
[n] contractile aperture in the iris of the eye
[n] a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution [n] a child attending school Synonyms | Synonyms for Pupil: educatee | schoolchild | student Related Terms | Find terms related to Pupil: See Also | aperture | art student | auditor | boarder | catechumen | child | college boy | college man | collegian | crammer | day boarder | enrollee | Etonian | fry | iris | kid | law student | major | medical student | medico | minor | neophyte | nestling | nipper | nonachiever | nonreader | overachiever | passer | scholar | schoolboy | seminarian | seminarist | shaver | sixth-former | skipper | small fry | teacher-student relation | tiddler | tike | tyke | underachiever | underperformer | withdrawer | Wykehamist | youngster Pupil In Webster's Dictionary \Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of
the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See {Puppet}, and
cf. {Pupil} a scholar.] (Anat.)
The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the
eye. See the Note under {Eye}, and {Iris}.
{Pin-hole pupil} (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so
contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium
poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. --Dunglison.
\Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. masc. & fem., L. pupillus, pupilla, dim. of pupus boy, pupa girl. See {Puppet}, and cf. {Pupil} of the eye.] 1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. --Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. --L'Estrange. 2. A person under a guardian; a ward. --Dryden. 3. (Civil Law) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female. Syn: Learner; disciple; tyro. -- See {Scholar}. |
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