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  • 91student — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. learner, pupil, apprentice, schoolboy or girl; scholar, schoolman or woman, pedant. See school, learning. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. learner, pupil, scholar, disciple, undergraduate, coed*, collegian,… …

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  • 92student — stu|dent W1S1 [ˈstju:dənt US ˈstu: ] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: , present participle of studere; STUDY1] 1.) someone who is studying at a university, school etc →↑pupil student at ▪ a first year student at the University of Oslo… …

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  • 93polisher — n a toady, ingratiating person, obsequious flatterer. A London working class term also briefly in vogue in the media in the early 1980s. It is a truncated form of the (originally American) apple polisher (from the image of a schoolchild present… …

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  • 94infant — noun 1》 a very young child or baby. 2》 Brit. a schoolchild between the ages of five and seven. 3》 [as modifier] denoting something in an early stage of development: the infant universe. 4》 Law a person who has not attained legal majority. Origin… …

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  • 95pupil — pupil1 noun 1》 a person who is taught by another, especially a schoolchild. 2》 Brit. a trainee barrister. Word History The two English words pupil are related to each other, and to poppet, puppet, and pupa, through their Latin root, pupa girl,… …

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  • 96schoolkid — noun informal a schoolchild …

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  • 97pupil — noun 1) former pupils of the school Syn: student, scholar; schoolchild, schoolboy, schoolgirl 2) the guru s pupils Syn: disciple, follower, student, protégé, apprentice, trainee, nov …

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  • 98scholar — noun 1) a leading biblical scholar Syn: academic, intellectual, learned person, man/woman of letters, mind, intellect, savant, polymath, highbrow, bluestocking; authority, expert; informal egghead 2) archaic the school had 28 scholars …

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  • 99student — noun 1) a college student Syn: scholar, undergraduate, graduate, grad student, postdoctoral fellow; freshman, sophomore, junior, senior 2) high school student Syn: pupil, schoolchild …

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  • 100learner — n 1. scholar, academician, student, studier, pupil, educatee; schoolchild, schoolgirl, schoolboy, collegian, college girl or woman, coed, college boy or man, sophister; apprentice, Inf. prentice, trainee; disciple, follower, protege; proselyte,… …

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