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student body

student body noun: all the students (pupils) enrolled at an educational institution.

Noun

student body (plural student bodies)

  1. All the students (pupils) enrolled at an educational institution.
    • The student body held its annual all-school meeting to discuss prom night.
    • The stated mission of the Jon Grissom Academy, commissioned in 2176, is to "serve a student population demonstrating excellence and passion for math, science, and the liberal arts." Its entirely human student body ranges in age from the early teens to the mid-twenties.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Grissom Academy
  2. (slang) A football play in which most of the players run to one side of the field.
    • student body left
    • student body right

Forms of student body

pluralstudent bodies

Questions about student body

What does student body mean?
Student body means all the students (pupils) enrolled at an educational institution.
What part of speech is student body?
Student body is a noun.
What is the plural of student body?
The plural of student body is student bodies.

Words near student body in the dictionary

  1. student
  2. student affairs
  3. student athlete
  4. student athletes
  5. student bodies
  6. student body
  7. student council
  8. student councils
  9. student driver
  10. student drivers
  11. student ghetto

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