Sixth-former

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pupil in the sixth form. Australia, UK

    "[T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules."

  2. 2
    a student in the sixth form wordnet

Example

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"[T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules."

Etymology

From sixth form + -er.

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