schoolchild
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- noun
- /ˈskuːlˌtʃaɪld/
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- The teacher explained the math problem to the eager schoolchild in the front row.
- elementary schoolchildren
- schoolchildren learn
- schoolchildren attend
Parents may vote for things that benefit them more than the schoolchildren.
- Parents may vote for things that benefit them more than the schoolchildren.
Examples
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More than 15,000 Chicago-area schoolchildren will be involved in the program by September 1990.
Academic text (1990) -
If you tell me the day of the year and the time of the day, I can tell you what every single French schoolchild is doing across the country.
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Every schoolchild knows that our recycling technologies... will cure the environment.
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A witch is forbidden to speak the words every schoolchild has been taught.
Fiction book (1996) -
After the break, we'll learn about what one group of schoolchildren...
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His name should be on the lips of schoolchildren.
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The queen even attended a party that had brought thirty thousand schoolchildren into Hyde Park.
Academic text (1997) -
In particular, schoolchildren are required to attend sessions in which such images are prominently displayed.
Academic text (2008) -
Uniformed schoolchildren get on and off the bus as they do in any metropolis.
Academic text (2011) -
Studies have shown that vaccinated schoolchildren and their families experience lower rates of influenza-associated illnesses.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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A person who studies at a school or university
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A child who goes to school and learns from a teacher
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A girl who goes to school, usually as a child or teenager
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A boy who goes to school
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A student who attends classes as a child or teen
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1.3
A child old enough to go to school, usually between five and fifteen years old
A child who goes to primary or secondary school
Antonyms
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Schoolchild is made of school + child. The school part comes from an old Greek word scholē that meant 'leisure' and later 'place for learning', and it is the same root as scholar, so a schoolchild is a child who goes to that place to learn.