studentstu‧dent /ˈstjuːdənt $ ˈstuː-/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 
a first-year student at the University of Oslolaw/science/medical etc student There are plenty of job opportunities for engineering students.student teacher/nurse etc (=someone who is studying to be a teacher, nurse etc)A/B/C student (=a student who always gets A's, B's etc for their work) → mature student2be a student of something to be very interested in a particular subject: He’s obviously an excellent student of human nature.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + studenta law/medical/chemistry etc student· Approximately 40% of law students are women.a university/college/school student· How many college students are politically active?a high school/elementary school student American English· Her son is a high school student.a first-year/second-year etc student (=in their first year, second year etc at college or university)· First-year students have an exam at the end of term.an A/B/C student American English (=one who usually gets an A, B, or C for their work)· He was an A student all the way through high school.an undergraduate student (=one who is studying for a first degree)· Most undergraduate students rely on student loans for finance.a postgraduate student British English, a graduate student American English (=one who has already done a first degree)· There is a separate university prospectus for postgraduate students.a research student (=doing research in a university)· When I returned to Cambridge, I continued this work with two of my research students.a mature student especially British English (=a student who is over 25 years old)· He took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University.a foreign/overseas student· The University welcomes applications from overseas students.student + NOUNa student loan/grant (=money that is lent or given to a student)· Some of them are still paying off student loans.student life (=the way of life of university and college students)· Parties are an important part of student life.a student teacher/doctor/nurse (=someone who is learning to be a teacher, doctor, or nurse)· Student teachers work alongside qualified teachers to gain classroom experience.THESAURUSstudent someone who is studying at a university or school. In British English, student is not usually used to refer to a child at primary school: · a student at Moscow University· How many students are there in your class?· The university has a lot of overseas students.· Most schools have special classes for students with learning difficulties.pupil especially British English someone who is being taught in a particular school or by a particular teacher: · The school has 300 pupils.· He received a letter from one of his former pupils.schoolchild a child who goes to school: · The play was performed by a group of local schoolchildren.schoolboy/schoolgirl especially British English a boy or girl who goes to school – used especially when talking about how they behave, or that time in someone’s life: · They were behaving like naughty schoolgirls.· When he was a schoolboy, no one had heard of computers.· He blushed at her like a schoolboy.learner someone who is learning a foreign language: · Learners often have problems with pronunciation.· a book for foreign learners of English
WORD ORIGINstudent
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin present participle of studere; ➔ STUDY1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Student leaders had organized a sit-in to protest against the war.
- a farewell party for the overseas students
- extra help for disabled students
- He was accused of attacking a fellow student.
- Law students always have a lot of work to do.
- Mira hadn't seen Brad since their student days at the University of Wisconsin.
- Seventy percent of the university's business students have job offers by graduation.
- She's a student at Cornell University.
- The study found that drug use among high school students is rising.
- There are only 15 students in each class.
- We have a large number of mature students here, some with small children.
- We would welcome suggestions from both teachers and students.
- What was the social life like when you were a student nurse?
- Wiggins was a student of theology for many years before leaving the seminary.
- At the first meeting with the students we discussed with them the arguments for this way of working and secured their agreement.
- How can all that knowledge be condensed into a fifty-minute lecture to students who know almost nothing about it?
- Others are fortunate to find supportive faculty, administrators, and fellow students.
- Relying on math formulas or drills in class, the study suggests, bores many students and undermines their performance.
- Studies had shown that the more assessment tests a student failed, the likelier that student was to drop out.
- The device ensures that the students have the correct information and avoids copious note-taking.
- To get a better grade the student must take it from one of the students above by out-performing him or her.
THESAURUS
someone who is studying at a university or school. In British English, student is not usually used to refer to a child at primary school: · a student at Moscow University· How many students are there in your class?· The university has a lot of overseas students.· Most schools have special classes for students with learning difficulties.
especially British English someone who is being taught in a particular school or by a particular teacher: · The school has 300 pupils.· He received a letter from one of his former pupils.
a child who goes to school: · The play was performed by a group of local schoolchildren.
especially British English a boy or girl who goes to school – used especially when talking about how they behave, or that time in someone’s life: · They were behaving like naughty schoolgirls.· When he was a schoolboy, no one had heard of computers.· He blushed at her like a schoolboy.
someone who is learning a foreign language: · Learners often have problems with pronunciation.· a book for foreign learners of English
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is learning something someone who is studying at a school, college, or university: · She's a student at Cornell University.· extra help for disabled students· He was accused of attacking a fellow student.· a farewell party for the overseas studentslaw/medical/engineering etc student: · Law students always have a lot of work to do.student nurse/teacher (=someone who is studying to be a nurse or a teacher): · What was the social life like when you were a student nurse?mature student British (=a student who is over the age of 25, and who has worked before coming to university or college): · We have a large number of mature students here, some with small children.
someone who is learning a skill while working in a company or organization: · The new class of trainees was highly motivated.· I started out as a trainee on the trading floor, earning around $25,000 a year.trainee accountant/reporter/salesman etc: · I got a job as a trainee reporter on the 'Daily Star'.· He spent three years as a trainee manager before getting his present position.
someone who has recently started to learn something: · Japanese classes for beginners· The tennis club welcomes beginners as well as more advanced players.· As a beginner, she needs quite a lot of encouragement.
someone who is learning all the skills that they need in order to do a job, especially a job that they do with their hands: · When I finish classes, I'm hoping to land a summer job as a chef's apprentice.apprentice electrician/bricklayer/hairdresser etc: · I worked as an apprentice electrician for 18 months.
someone who is learning a particular subject or skill, especially a foreign language and usually in a school: · A good teacher holds the learner's interest and stimulates them to find out more.slow/fast/quick learner: · James was a fast learner, and was soon better at tennis than his coach.· You're a quick learner! It took me ages to get the hang of it.
a student someone who is studying at school, university etc: · We would welcome suggestions from both teachers and students.· Student leaders had organized a sit-in to protest against the war.high school/college etc student: · The study found that drug use among high school students is rising.English/engineering/business etc student: · Seventy percent of the university's business students have job offers by graduation.student of: · Wiggins was a student of theology for many years before leaving the seminary.student days (=the time when you were a student): · Mira hadn't seen Brad since their student days at the University of Wisconsin.
especially British a child who studies at a school: · The school has over 700 pupils.· The new law reduces the number of pupils per class in the first four years of schooling.
someone who is learning about a particular subject - used especially by teachers and people talking about the needs of students: · A major aim of education is to improve learners' understanding of the world around them.· At the end of each chapter there is a series of exercises designed to help the learner.
especially British a child who studies at a school: · He was quickly surrounded by schoolgirls asking for his autograph.· Only 10% of British schoolchildren attend private schools.
informal a child who studies at a school: · I was just a schoolkid - I didn't know anything about poetry or literature.· They were standing outside giggling away like a couple of naughty schoolkids.
someone who is studying at a university in order to get their first degree: · They met when they were undergraduates at Cambridge.· The loans, which are based on financial need, are limited to $3000 for undergraduates.
American someone who is studying English, history etc as their main subject at a college or university: · Her boyfriend was a political science major at Berkeley.· I was a biology major in college, but I've forgotten almost everything I learned.
British /graduate student American someone who is studying for a higher degree after their first degree: · About half the graduate students in the program come from overseas.· He has three postgraduates helping him with his research.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + student Universities have to provide student accommodation for first-year students. They’re looking for full-time staff at the library. The number of LEP students has risen since 1993. matriculated students training for new employees
· Approximately 40% of law students are women.
· How many college students are politically active?
American English· Her son is a high school student.
(=in their first year, second year etc at college or university)· First-year students have an exam at the end of term.
American English (=one who usually gets an A, B, or C for their work)· He was an A student all the way through high school.
(=one who is studying for a first degree)· Most undergraduate students rely on student loans for finance.
British English, a graduate student American English (=one who has already done a first degree)· There is a separate university prospectus for postgraduate students.
(=doing research in a university)· When I returned to Cambridge, I continued this work with two of my research students.
especially British English (=a student who is over 25 years old)· He took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University.
· The University welcomes applications from overseas students.
student + NOUN (=money that is lent or given to a student)· Some of them are still paying off student loans.
(=the way of life of university and college students)· Parties are an important part of student life.
(=someone who is learning to be a teacher, doctor, or nurse)· Student teachers work alongside qualified teachers to gain classroom experience.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Universities have to provide student accommodation for first-year students.· Entrance is free if you have a student card.
· a sixth-form college student
(=helping students or families with problems)· Student counsellors say there's a lot of pressure at college these days.
(=by students)· In France, student demonstrations were disrupting university teaching.
· Our college arranged student exchanges with four colleges in France.
They’re looking for full-time staff at the library.· If you are on a low income, you may be able to get a student grant.
· Language learners often have problems with tenses.
The number of LEP students has risen since 1993. (=money lent to a student to pay for university)· Many college graduates are paying off huge student loans.
matriculated students training for new employees· The university has a student population of almost 5,000.
· The college will be holding an open day for prospective students.
· Student protests were crushed by police.
· A family crisis can adversely affect the developing parent-child relationship.
· He supervised many research students.
(also school pupils British English)· Most school students have musical interests of some kind.
· Thirty years ago 33% of university students were female.
· Anti-war demonstrations became the focus of student unrest in the early 1970s.
· They'd sent their daughter abroad on a student visa.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Girls and boys, women and men, black and white students are differentiated and polarized.· I don't care about rock festivals or black power or student revolutions or going to the Moon.· According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.· Support in 1990 has enabled several thousand black students to continue into higher education.· Not only do black students have problems with white students and white institutions, but splits occur among the black students themselves.· In contrast, discrimination against black students occurs at the initial entry stage into the labour market.· Many of the more intellectually sophisticated black students were embarrassed and even insulted by the crudity of Jeffries' appeal.
· Four of Aikenhead's fellow students whose views on religion Aikenhead claimed were similar to his gave evidence against him.· He seemed to prefer to go travelling with his fellow students.· Be prepared to accept a suggestion from a fellow student.· Mimic only the language helper, not the supervisor or a fellow student.· At college he was held in great affection and esteem by his fellow students.· At college, the questions you and your fellow students pose are as important as the answers supplied.· When I was a student one of my fellow students was a fairly rude, arrogant young man.
· Taught postgraduate and higher degree students profit from a very wide range of national and international contacts in the department.· But they expressed the greatest concerns about the time it takes for workers to supervise and mentor high school students.· On April 2, as schools and the university reopened, there were minor clashes between high school students and police.· Y., collected stamps and, as a high school honors student, performed science experiments on the conductivity of seawater.· In addition 7,000 high school students from around the world took part in Rotary's youth exchange programme.· In my travels around the country I have met with hundreds of high school students.· In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.· A sweet-voiced high school student named Laura Travis performed the song solo.
· Walker suggests that if there is an optimum age for mature students it is likely to be in the late twenties.· I was a mature student of the time so I would be pleased to hear from those graduating prior to 1985.· Some of them were mature students studying medicine, dentistry, law, engineering.· This is particularly true in encouraging the admission of mature students, among whom local applicants are viewed especially sympathetically.· Most research on women in engineering has been done exclusively on either school-leavers or mature students.· The faculty welcomes applications from mature students.· He was a mature student ... I had known him in fact as a child.· The latter argument is based partly on the growing importance to higher education of mature students and continuing education.
· Bloomsbury House reacted sceptically with a half-hearted inquiry as to the Home Office attitude to refugee medical students.· The only educational investment most banks are willing to make without government subsidies or guarantees is for medical students.· He sat where medical students usually sat, hands clasped before him, watching the rapid movement of the green-robed figures below.· Almost from the start, as a young medical student, he embraced the patients other doctors tried to avoid.· He also freelanced, collecting bodies from alleys for medical students.· In 1985, only 3 percent of medical students graduated owing more than $ 75, 000.· Amongst the people who came visiting was a young Maidenhead medical student.· Think of a medical student attending a course in the X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary diseases.
· Since autumn 1998, full-time undergraduate students have been required to make a means-tested contribution towards tuition fees.· One reason: a sharp drop in the number of undergraduate students choosing economics as a major.· The cards were then presented to six groups of undergraduate students, each group containing four or five members.· Similar changes have already begun in the admissions process for undergraduate students entering in 1998.· But what about the undergraduate students back home who also need stimulation by brilliant people?· Yale has an obligation to its undergraduate students.· Linton lists as his perceived audience undergraduates studying microbiology, together with both undergraduate and postgraduate students of medicine and veterinary science.· Nisbet is furthest removed from the little intellectual worlds of ordinary people-the undergraduate students and citizens.
· This proved a vain hope, as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.· But their young student athletes might not be as ready as they think.· His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic.· Almost from the start, as a young medical student, he embraced the patients other doctors tried to avoid.· The best players tend to be very young, students in their early 20s, he said.· Startled, his young student did so.· Instead apathy reigns, not least among the young, even students.· And for the young students, it might just take the fun out of learning.
NOUN· Black-jacketed on the podium, he was on a different plane from the student body, silent and scribbling at his feet.· In schools with an all-white student body, the average ran up to $ 350 allocated per pupil per year.· There is a strong sense of community amongst the self-governing student body.· Assisted by aides from surrounding neighborhoods, teachers at Jackson work valiantly with the diverse student body.· The student body is cosmopolitan, including individuals from all continents.· The makeup of the student body is a prototype of schools that fail.· The student body thereupon came out on strike.· They conduct flight pattern experiments with paper airplanes in science laboratories with the rest of the student body.
· It would be great if we could achieve that level of non-smoking among school and college students.· Basic computer literacy is becoming an integral part of education for many high school and college students.· Let's look at some typical groups of college students in Britain.· Did a college student serious about building his future at once have to agonize over his future?· The college student counselling services are well-experienced in such matters and can be very supportive.· Karen was not an average City College student, but nobody would have thought to call her privileged.· Equally, the community college students recalled more information when the relative importance of different ideas was made more explicit.· A few college students have gathered in a square to swap soccer trading cards.
· It is not just overseas graduate students who have problems.· As a first-year graduate student, I taught an undergraduate honors seminar on concepts of normality.· A paper for some graduate student, she thought.· I remember one in particular prepared by a graduate student who came from a well-to-do family.· I started compiling an annotated bibliography of the philosophy of mind when I was a graduate student learning the ropes.· As a graduate student at the London School of Economics I was taught that stock markets were efficient.· In one, first-year graduate students were asked to take part in an experiment.· Most of my fellow graduate students could read another language.
· The mixed honours degrees mentioned below specifically cater for the non-vocational law student.· Well, consider an instant poll of a class of first-year law students, asked Tuesday who they wanted for their dean.· But it could not do without its law students who brought business and fame and brilliance to the town.· Six years before, she had shocked her family and class by marrying a destitute Berkeley law student.· And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford, Greater Manchester.· The law student is not expected to learn every single rule in every single legal topic.· Only 5 percent of our law students are black, and the figure is declining.
· This student loans scheme has degenerated into open shambles.· Some of them are still paying off student loans and confronting the increasing costs of educating their own children.· Her student loan ran out earlier last month and she is now £500 overdrawn.· Weld said he thought some federal student loan and job training programs were mired in bureaucracy.· It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan - in total a yearly income of just £2,685.· It borrows money by selling its own debt and invests in student loans.· Picture, page 4 Rethink call from Tory peers follows banks' pull-out Minister in corner over student loans.· Sallie Mae manages one in every three outstanding student loans, or about $ 34 billion, he said.
· A drive to attract more ethnic minority students to Longlands College, Middlesbrough, is showing good results.· Among minority students the figures were, predictably, much lower.· Most central city schools serve primarily poor, working class and minority students.· He saw it in the low number of minority students enrolled in honors classes.· Too often minority students themselves are blamed for their failure.· S.-born and minority students to consider careers in science and technology.· Maybe a minority student has not had the same opportunities.· Gross desperately pointed to the work of a lifetime to show that he was scarcely unsympathetic to the plight of minority students.
· First School students and Junior students pursue separate courses, as they prepare specifically for classroom work.· In my travels around the country I have met with hundreds of high school students.· The future was also theirs: Nonconformist Sunday School students came to 14,091,034.· Connecticut is assessing high school students in math and science based on team-oriented projects that take up to a semester of work.· Only Ray and a high school student named Devon Franklin remained standing in the middle of the nave.· Mary's High School students may apply for one of two $ 500 awards.· Once accepted into the program, high school students complete a core sequence of applied academics and technology courses.
· Even student teachers, who might reasonably be expected to be the least jaundiced and most optimistic informants, aren't happy.· Are there special liability standards for substitute teachers and student teachers?· We used to have student teachers in from what was then called Borough Road Training College.· This doctrine is illustrated by a New York case where a student teacher was injured while participating in a donkey basketball game.· For example, a parallel rise in the number of children entering schools will result in an increased need for student teachers.· Teachers and student teachers from six North County schools are taking part.· The other letter is from Melanie, a 19-year-old student teacher in the village of Umvuma.· I left school in 1941, and went for a year as a student teacher in my father's school.
· Thirty years ago 33 % of university students were female; now there are more women than men.· The dance given by the university students was held in the upstairs Cyllene Salen.· It's a blow to University students who've had to cancel performances they've worked hard to produce.· He was 22 at the time, still a Stanford University student.· Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas.· When the soldiers blocked university students from entering campuses the next morning, name-calling and fights broke out.· In the fifties university student numbers had risen from 135,000 in 1949 to 220,000 in 1960.· She will be sought after by university students and officers both, but she will prefer the officers.
VERB· The purpose of this is usually to allow students the opportunity to use language they know in a less controlled situation.· Is it fair to allow certain students to do less?· There are obvious benefits in allowing each student to go at his own pace.· It will allow students in one school district to work with students in the next town or half way around the world.· Thus allowing the student to be certificated for a breadth of technique in string instruments.· Schools and classrooms can be restructured to allow students greater participation in the valid aspects of the school-governing process.· Vocational Studies allow students to make an informed choice of career options.· They provide expertise across a wide range of topics while allowing the students to contribute to the year-to-year developments in experimental techniques.
· Then we asked the students to sit quietly with their eyes closed and think about the costs.· Hold up the circular strip and ask the students how many sides it has.· I came to this conclusion after being asked by a student for some information on Occitan.· First they read them aloud, then Primo asks the other students if they understand.· Remember that you have asked students to put on a public performance.· The statute, in addition to its provision for silent meditation, authorized teachers to ask students whether they wished to pray.· There is nothing worse than asking students to write a memo to Macbeth.
· It also helps students to expand and develop vocabulary, which is one of the key needs at this level.· What is needed first in each school is a clear sense of direction-an articulated goal to identify and help work-inhibited students.· This brought in loans to help towards student living costs.· In order to help work-inhibited students as much as possible, it is extremely important to rule out any other suspected disorders.· A new way of helping students leave a mark.· This professional year helps students to relate theory to practice and later to make more informed career choices.· Programs may be developed during school hours where professionals help work-inhibited students.
· Bed spaces will be provided for 365 students along with creche and laundry facilities.· To provide students with career exploration or specific occupational competencies?· Projects provide the student with the opportunity to demonstrate personal initiative.· They have a wide view to help them look out for the hunters. Provide the students with pictures of animals.· In addition, an updated record is provided for each student following the termly examination committees, showing the student's results.· Apprenticeships and other programs with clear, competency-based standards provide students with real, marketable skills and a credential when they graduate.· It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing.· The rally, according to Merrill, provides students a channel to express feelings of violation and pain.
· There can be as much discussion as is required and students can be directed to known sources of topics.· In mathematics, it included open-ended problems requiring students to show their work.· Good assignments will also require the student to answer some technical catering questions and resolve syllabus issues.· Are schools required to recognize controversial student groups?· They are usable by any member of staff when not required by students.· This requires that the student understands the terms used, especially technical terms.· It said 78 percent of the schools require prospective students to demonstrate grade-level achievement.
· As well as formal sessions there may be opportunities for developing informal and spontaneous bedside teaching both patients and students.· He took up a job at the City Day College teaching day-release students.· I have taught many students by these two criteria.· By the case method, both cheap and easy, one can teach two hundred students as easily as twenty.· That is the first lesson I teach my students at Bart's.· It had developed a list of workforce-readiness objectives to teach students before they began working at the company.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► people/women/students etc of color► fee-paying student/patient
- Before the hobbyists even integrated the word into their lexicon, Raskin was a student of interface.
- He announced that he was a student of divinity; did Mr Arkwright read his Bible?
- In the evening I was invited to have dinner with a citizen of the city, whose son is a student of.
- Jim is a student of mathematics.
- Most journalists are students of human behaviour.
- One of them was a student of military uniforms.
- She was a student of some sort, I don't know of what.
- Weber was a student of social organisations and was interested in how organisations could direct the individuals in them towards given objectives.
- I was an A student, on my way to medical school.
- But once at university I was an apt student.
- With every move she gave a little gasp, as her body, previous experience or not, proved an apt pupil.
- As the permanent workplace becomes a shifting work space, daily face-to-face contact with fellow workers is increasingly sporadic.
- Host a quiz night for your fellow students.
- Not all of my fellow students were as pleased with me, though.
- Religion may affect employees' attitudes to their jobs and their relationships with expatriates and fellow countrymen.
- She and her fellow students were told that their mission was to free the peasants from feudalism.
- Stallabrass seems alienated from the labour of his fellow workers.
- To help you relate to your fellow students. 2.
- Workshops are an ideal opportunity to meet tutors and exchange ideas with fellow students.
- Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student.
- First, she had to have earned good grades; second, she had to have been a model student.
- He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.
- How is that model employee of yours?
- In all she was a model wife, and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
- Two other girls were model students.
- Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.
- Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
WORD FAMILYnounstudentstudystudiousnessadjectivestudiousstudiedverbstudyadverbstudiously
1someone who is studying at a university, school etcstudent at a first-year student at the University of Oslolaw/science/medical etc student There are plenty of job opportunities for engineering students.student teacher/nurse etc (=someone who is studying to be a teacher, nurse etc)A/B/C student (=a student who always gets A's, B's etc for their work) → mature student2be a student of something to be very interested in a particular subject: He’s obviously an excellent student of human nature.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + studenta law/medical/chemistry etc student· Approximately 40% of law students are women.a university/college/school student· How many college students are politically active?a high school/elementary school student American English· Her son is a high school student.a first-year/second-year etc student (=in their first year, second year etc at college or university)· First-year students have an exam at the end of term.an A/B/C student American English (=one who usually gets an A, B, or C for their work)· He was an A student all the way through high school.an undergraduate student (=one who is studying for a first degree)· Most undergraduate students rely on student loans for finance.a postgraduate student British English, a graduate student American English (=one who has already done a first degree)· There is a separate university prospectus for postgraduate students.a research student (=doing research in a university)· When I returned to Cambridge, I continued this work with two of my research students.a mature student especially British English (=a student who is over 25 years old)· He took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University.a foreign/overseas student· The University welcomes applications from overseas students.student + NOUNa student loan/grant (=money that is lent or given to a student)· Some of them are still paying off student loans.student life (=the way of life of university and college students)· Parties are an important part of student life.a student teacher/doctor/nurse (=someone who is learning to be a teacher, doctor, or nurse)· Student teachers work alongside qualified teachers to gain classroom experience.THESAURUSstudent someone who is studying at a university or school. In British English, student is not usually used to refer to a child at primary school: · a student at Moscow University· How many students are there in your class?· The university has a lot of overseas students.· Most schools have special classes for students with learning difficulties.pupil especially British English someone who is being taught in a particular school or by a particular teacher: · The school has 300 pupils.· He received a letter from one of his former pupils.schoolchild a child who goes to school: · The play was performed by a group of local schoolchildren.schoolboy/schoolgirl especially British English a boy or girl who goes to school – used especially when talking about how they behave, or that time in someone’s life: · They were behaving like naughty schoolgirls.· When he was a schoolboy, no one had heard of computers.· He blushed at her like a schoolboy.learner someone who is learning a foreign language: · Learners often have problems with pronunciation.· a book for foreign learners of English