Definition of day student in US English:
day student
noundeɪ ˈst(j)udntdeɪ ˈst(j)udnt
A student who attends classes at a boarding school or college but who does not live at the school.
Example sentencesExamples
- Many Alexandria schools provided accommodation for boarding as well as day students.
- If my child enrols as a day student, can she/he switch to become a boarding student?
- Independent schools in Essex are enjoying a six per cent increase in the number of day students.
- The school, which has a mixture of 278 boarding and day students, used to run a strict no-alcohol policy.
- In that school there was a real division between the boarders and the day students, but I knew him as a very talented singer and keyboard player.
- When staying in the dorm for an overnight, a day student is expected to check in.
- Whatever the faults of boarding schools are, the atmosphere for study for most is better as a boarder than being a day student.
- The Brothers also opened a school for the sons of free slaves and an academy for day students, and later opened to boarders.
- The school houses 58 children, who are day students.
- It is a private Catholic independent secondary school which provides full-time education for boarding and day students.
- Their most expensive rate, for senior boarders costs £8,790 per year, while an under-13 day student will cost £4,260 per year.
- Their School for Colored Girls accommodated paying day students and a few boarders.
- Both boarding and day students attend the school.
- The day students are financed mainly by their parents and so should benefit from the daytime lectures and tutorials.