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schooler

schooler

35 3.0
A student who attends classes as a child or teen
  • noun
  • /ˈskuːlər/
  • US
translation icon : estudiante
  • As a high schooler, she decided to join the debate team to improve her public speaking skills.
  • middle schooler
  • high schooler
  • home schooler

Nor, as a grade schooler once said, a myth is a female moth.

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Examples

  • Is there advice you can give to young people, high schoolers, college students, about career, about life?

  • He says every high schooler plays this piece about a music stand.

  • And we can tell, you know, a middle schooler started making these sandwiches.

  • And I'm a high schooler in the pretty much the middle of my final year.

  • It's like a middle schooler that just got braces.

  • Our time as middle schoolers has come to an end.

  • The high schoolers are out to play tonight.

  • How often are middle schoolers asked to think about what they find beautiful and why?

    Academic text (2001)
  • Today's high schoolers have it harder than previous generations.

  • You know, you get to a point where it's like, well, does that mean that we're going to have only high schoolers working on this stuff versus actual people who need the job?

Synonyms

student
vsschooler
1.0

A person who studies at a school or university

is narrower and used for people at particular school levels not all learners
pupil
vsschooler
80 1.0

A child who goes to school and learns from a teacher

is used for people at specific education levels rather than only children
schoolie
vsschooler
  • UK
8.1

A child who goes to primary or secondary school

is broader and covers any person at a named education level

Antonyms

551 3.4

A person who has finished a course at a college or university and received a degree

78 3.4

A person who leaves school, college, or another group before finishing

Surface Forms

schooler singular
schoolers plural

Morphology

schooler = school (transparent) = school + er

The meaning is straightforwardly derived as a person associated with or attending school.

Etymology

The word schooler comes from school ('a place for learning') plus the ending -er ('one who'), so it simply means 'a person who goes to school'. A helpful way to remember school is that it comes from an old Greek idea of 'free time' used for thinking and learning, which is why a schooler is a student.