Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scholar or pupil attending a day-school.—
- noun A scholar who attends a boarding-school, but who boards at home.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word day-scholar.
Examples
-
He was entered as a day-scholar at a popular school at
Wessex Tales 2006
-
He had leave to go to the little town of Longhampton, three miles away, to visit a day-scholar, a great friend of his, now on the sick list.
Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore
-
Chegaray's, where Frances Kellogg was a boarding pupil and in a class higher than mine when I was a day-scholar.
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur
-
Every day-scholar will be charged 1 dollar for fire-wood; besides the above charges none will be made, except for the necessary books.
North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915
-
And, consequently, when my friend looked in to visit a day-scholar who was to be operated on for adenoids -- I've no idea what they are, but a thing with a name like that would naturally have to be cut out of one -- she was told of this poor fellow, and has shed the light of her countenance on him occasionally since.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
-
During the intervals of sickness my mother yielded to our entreaties, and Caroline was sent to school; but as a day-scholar she often missed classes for one reason or another, being so often wanted, and after becoming a boarder she never remained in the same institution for more than a few months at a time.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
-
But being now become a day-scholar at the Grammar School, and thrown whether I would or not among other boys of my own age, I sank my recondite self deeply under the folds of my quickened senses.
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
-
School, which he attended for some years as a day-scholar.
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
-
Proudhon entered school as a day-scholar in the sixth class.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
-
But the fact that I had been cut off from my coevals by night, cut me off from them also by day -- so that I was nothing to them, neither a boarder nor a day-scholar, neither flesh, fish nor fowl.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.