day scholarn.
/ˈdeɪ skɒlə/, U.S. /ˈdeɪ ˌskɑlər/ A pupil who attends daily classes at a boarding school, but goes home in the evenings.Often contrasted with boarder n. 1a.
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day scholar1699
day-boy1750
day boarder1758
day pupil1784
day student1795
home boarder1816
day girl1831
out-pupil1841
extern1848
daybug1909
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Day-Scholar, un externe.
1718 F. de La Pilonnière Reply to Dr. Snape's Vindic. ii. 28 A young Gentleman that went as a Day-Scholar to Mr. Mills's School.
1763 W. Massey Origin & Progress Lett. ii. 8 Alleine..kept a school both for boarders and day-scholars, for a great many years in Coleman-street, London.
1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. i. 5 The four elder ones, therefore, between four and nine years old, became day-scholars only.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 264/1 He resumed his studies,..as a day-scholar at the Charterhouse.
1881 Harper's Mag. Apr. 720/2 The day scholars..glanced..at the attire of this girl.
1923 St. Louis Catholic Hist. Rev. 5 108 The day-scholars appear to have been carefully segregated from the boarders; and indeed the expediency of admitting day-scholars at all remained an open question for several years.
2003 A. O. Mitha Unlikely Beginnings iii. 28 All three of us brothers were enrolled in St Mary's High School as day scholars.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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