Pupil

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A youth or any person of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor; in general, a scholar; a disciple.
  • noun. A ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian.
  • noun. In civil law, a person under puberty (fourteen for males, twelve for females), over whom a guardian has been appointed.
  • Under age; in a state of pupilage or nonage; minor.
  • noun. The orifice of the iris; the hole or opening in the iris through which light passes.
  • noun. In zoology: The central dark part of an ocellated spot. See ocellus, 4.
  • noun. A dark, apparently interior, spot seen in the compound eyes of certain insects, and changing in position as it is viewed from different sides.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
  • noun. A person under a guardian; a ward.
  • noun. A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
  • noun. The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under eye, and iris.
  • noun. the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole.
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  • noun. An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
  • noun. A student under the supervision of a teacher or professor.
  • noun. The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.
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  • noun. a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
  • noun. a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
  • noun. the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot
  • Word Usage
    "The other pupil is also a Scotch Lad Brother to Sir — Ramsey; but I don't like him, and of course he will never come to much."
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    admirer  advance  animal  artist  boy  
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    eye  iris