Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A child attending school.
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- noun A
young person attending school or of an age to attendschool .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, an English-language, state-run newspaper, the Global Times, told the US not to lecture Beijing like a "schoolchild".
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Via The Daily What, who frequently considers employing a Japanese schoolchild rather than have to scour the internet for viral videos about Super Mario Bros.
Super-Impressive: Super Mario Bros Stop-Motion Animation with Post-Its
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Its last report, in 2008, said almost $80,000 was necessary for two adults with one infant and one schoolchild.
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They wanted me to be a schoolchild and ask basic questions, such as 'What is a medlar?'
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She quoted the first lines of Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman," a poem every Russian schoolchild has learned by heart.
First they toppled the Moscow mayor, now they're after his sculptor
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In the words of Metro Board member and LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, himself a UCLA grad: "Any schoolchild will tell you that the center of the circle is in the middle of the circle and not at the edge or at the tangent."
John Mirisch: Fight on for UCLA: Rejecting a Westwood-Adjacent Subway Station
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You've bust the site, it's bloody brilliant, you've bust the site with stats!" squealed Sam down the phone like a schoolchild who'd just discovered a 12 pack of "waterbombs" in his father's bedside drawer."
Digital economy or bust: the story of a new media startup - part 33
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Every schoolchild in the country is taught that in 1833, the English illegally dislodged the Argentine population from the Falklands and replaced them with an occupying power.
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In the words of Metro Board member and LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, himself a UCLA grad: "Any schoolchild will tell you that the center of the circle is in the middle of the circle and not at the edge or at the tangent."
John Mirisch: Fight on for UCLA: Rejecting a Westwood-Adjacent Subway Station
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She quoted the first lines of Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman," a poem every Russian schoolchild has learned by heart.
First they toppled the Moscow mayor, now they're after his sculptor
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