NOUN | person | school-age child, schoolchild, pupil | a young person attending school (up through senior high school) |
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Meaning | A young person attending school (up through senior high school). | |
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Synonyms | schoolchild, pupil | |
Narrower | boarder | A pupil / pupil who lives at school during term time |
day boarder | A schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals / meals at school but sleeps at home | |
latchkey child | A school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work) | |
schoolboy | A boy attending school | |
Broader | young person, youth, younker, spring chicken | A young person (especially a young man or boy) |
Spanish | alumno, discípula, discípulo, escolar | |
Catalan | deixebla, deixeble |
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