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schooler

schooler

35 3.0
A student who attends classes as a child or teen
  • noun
  • /ˈskuːlər/
  • US
: 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.