Synonyms for pupil


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pyoo-puhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpyu pəl

Top 10 synonyms for pupil Other synonyms for the word pupil

Définition of pupil

Origin :
  • "student," late 14c., originally "orphan child, ward," from Old French pupille (14c.) and directly from Latin pupillus (fem. pupilla) "orphan child, ward, minor," diminutive of pupus "boy" (fem. pupa "girl"), probably related to puer "child," possibly from PIE *pup-, from root *pu- "to swell, inflate." Meaning "disciple, student" first recorded 1560s. Related: Pupillary.
  • noun person who is learning something
Example sentences :
  • To Cimabue succeeded his pupil, the famous Giotto, who died in 1337.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • But that pupil had a better protection in the sacred ambition stirring in her.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • For her part, she taught me so much more that it seems effrontery to call her my pupil.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • Each time the pupil showed it the master said, 'Go on and finish it.'
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
  • They were not quite ready yet, for they were still caressing the pupil.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • Yet he lost it, and the gold medal was adjudged to a pupil who was not afterwards heard of.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • Speaking of a pupil of this character, he said, “I would stand to that man hat in hand.”
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • She, herself, was all eagerness to learn of her pupil's progress.
  • Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • That should have been my pupil, and the good luck should have been mine.
  • Extract from : « St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. » by Various
  • The leader of the Idealists, a pupil of the celebrated Fichte!
  • Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

Antonyms for pupil

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