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day-scholars

day-scholars is the plural of day-scholar.

Meaning of day-scholar

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

Questions about day-scholars

What is day-scholars the plural of?
Day-scholars is the plural of day-scholar.

Words near day-scholars in the dictionary

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

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