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sixth-formers

sixth-formers is the plural of sixth-former.

Meaning of sixth-former

Noun

sixth-former (plural sixth-formers)

  1. (Australia, UK) A pupil in the sixth form.
    • [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37

Questions about sixth-formers

What is sixth-formers the plural of?
Sixth-formers is the plural of sixth-former.

Words near sixth-formers in the dictionary

  1. sixth senses
  2. Sixth World
  3. sixth-form college
  4. sixth-form colleges
  5. sixth-former
  6. sixth-formers
  7. sixth-rate
  8. sixth-rates
  9. sixth-sense
  10. sixth-sensed
  11. sixth-senses

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