student

noun

ˈstü-dᵊnt How to pronounce student (audio)
Definition of studentnext
as in pupil
one who attends a school a straight-A student at the local high school

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Recent Examples of student School districts in New York, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Missouri have included caffeine pouches in student conduct policies or prohibited their use on campus. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 The school trains students to become denim specialists, but Mariette Hoitink, the founder of House of Denim and Denim City, said repair requires a different skill set from design. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026 The Forum, the first of its 35th season, was moderated by journalist Michele Norris, and featured hundreds of high school and college students from across the state. — Nick Caito Photo, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026 According to one of the student reporters, SB Nation’s Testudo Times journalist Nolan Rogalski, he and Jude Wilkenfeld believed they were permitted to stand outside the football complex because Maryland is a public university. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for student
Recent Examples of Synonyms for student
  1. pupil
  2. scholar
Noun
  • Set in 1980s Britain, the comedy follows eight pupils at a Sheffield boys’ grammar school.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Former Huggins pupil Jerrod Calhoun was named Cincinnati's coach in March.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of pupil
Noun
  • During that period and beyond, Hawthorne kept a series of notebooks, which scholars see as an important primary source for understanding the ideas and descriptions that informed his early writings and later novels.
    — Robert S. Levine, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
  • For decades, hundreds of thousands of its objects were available only to scholars and curators.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of scholar

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“Student.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/student. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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