Schoolchild
//ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
"They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups."
- 2 a young person attending school (up through senior high school) wordnet
Example
More examples"You see, Tom, your articles are like those drawings made by young children: not those bright, colourful works with some semblance of imagination - perhaps with lackluster execution - but rather, the drawings of a simple, everyday schoolchild."
Etymology
From school + child.
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