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school child

school child is the alternative spelling of schoolchild.

Meaning of schoolchild

Noun

schoolchild (plural schoolchildren)

  1. A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
    • 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.1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9
    Synonyms:
    pupil, student, schoolkid

Forms of school child

pluralschool children

Origin of school child

From school + child.

Questions about school child

What is school child the alternative spelling of?
School child is the alternative spelling of schoolchild.

Words near school child in the dictionary

  1. school bus yellow
  2. school buses
  3. school busses
  4. school cap
  5. school captain
  6. school child
  7. school children
  8. school class
  9. school classes
  10. school committee
  11. school counselor

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