English

Alternative forms

• school child
• school-child

Noun

schoolchild ‎(plural schoolchildren)

1. A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
   • 1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterI:

     They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

Usage notes

The singular is seldom used.

Synonyms

• pupil, student (especially US)
• schoolkid (informal)

Hyponyms

• schoolboy
• schoolgirl

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