day pupilnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdeɪ ˌpjuː.pəl/us/ˈdeɪ ˌpjuː.pəl/UK US day studenta student who sleeps at home and studies at a school where some of the other students live
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Students & pupils
- -grader
- alumna
- alumnus
- attrition
- batchmate
- boarder
- entrant
- graduate
- infant
- intern
- internship
- learner
- mature age student
- pupil
- schoolgirl
- schoolmate
- sixth-former
- sophomore
- student
- theologian
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Examples from literature
- In September the school was regularly reopened for the reception of the day pupils.
- It was my idea, provided you two were willing to listen to my suggestion at all, to suggest that Mary attend as a day pupil.
- She expects at least fifty scholars, many of them her day pupils.
- We hope next year with our boarding pupils to do more than we could with only day pupils.