pupil

Noun
Synonyms: studenteducateeschoolchildschool-age child

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a learner who is enrolled in an educational institutionSynonyms: studenteducatee
  2. the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot
  3. a young person attending school (up through senior high school)Synonyms: schoolchildschool-age child
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Pupil \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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Pupil \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. [1913 Webster]

Too far in years to be a pupil now.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.— L'Estrange.[1913 Webster]

2.A person under a guardian; a ward. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Learner; disciple; tyro. -- See Scholar. [1913 Webster]

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