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student athlete

student athlete is the alternative form of student-athlete.

Meaning of student-athlete

Noun

student-athlete (plural student-athletes)

  1. (Canada, US) A student who participates in a competitive sport while also attending school.
    • The online fundraising site GiveSendGo continues to face criticism over a page that has raised more than $320,000 for Karmelo Anthony, the teen arrested for stabbing fellow 17-year-old student-athlete Austin Metcalf to death at a Texas track meet last week.2025 April 10, Bobby Burack, “GiveSendGo's $300,000 Page For Karmelo Anthony Is Consistent With Company Policy”, in OutKick, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2026

Forms of student athlete

pluralstudent athletes

Questions about student athlete

What is student athlete the alternative form of?
Student athlete is the alternative form of student-athlete.

Words near student athlete in the dictionary

  1. studency
  2. studenitsite
  3. Studenkin
  4. student
  5. student affairs
  6. student athlete
  7. student athletes
  8. student bodies
  9. student body
  10. student council
  11. student councils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: student athlete (page history and authors); student-athlete (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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