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day-scholar

day-scholar noun: a pupil who attends a day school.

Noun

day-scholar (plural day-scholars)

  1. A pupil who attends a day school.
  2. A pupil who attends a boarding school during the day, but lives at home.
    • My intimacy with these sisters goes back as far as my school days at Madame Chegaray's, where Frances Kellogg was a boarding pupil and in a class higher than mine when I was a day-scholar.1911, Marian Campbell Gouverneur, As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century, D. Appleton, page 216

Forms of day-scholar

pluralday-scholars
alternative formday scholar

Questions about day-scholar

What does day-scholar mean?
Day-scholar means a pupil who attends a day school.
What part of speech is day-scholar?
Day-scholar is a noun.
What is the plural of day-scholar?
The plural of day-scholar is day-scholars.

Words near day-scholar in the dictionary

  1. day-nighters
  2. day-old
  3. day-olds
  4. day-over-day
  5. day-peep
  6. day-scholar
  7. day-scholars
  8. day-sight
  9. Day-Stout-Warren algorithm
  10. day-time
  11. day-to-day

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