PUPIL

pupil

(noun) the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot

schoolchild, school-age child, pupil

(noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

student, pupil, educatee

(noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

pupil (plural pupils)

A learner under the supervision of a teacher or professor.

(legal, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.

Usage notes

• A pupil is typically a young person, such as a schoolchild. Older learners, e.g. at university, are generally called students.

Etymology 2

Noun

pupil (plural pupils)

(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

(zoology) The central dark part of an ocellated spot.

Anagrams

• pipul

Source: Wiktionary

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Pu"pil, n. Etym: [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar.] (Anat.)

Definition: The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

Pu"pil, n. Etym: [F. pupille, n. masc. & fem., L. pupillus, pupilla, dim. of pupus boy, pupa girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil of the eye.]

1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L'Estrange.

2. A person under a guardian; a ward. Dryden.

3. (Civil Law)

Definition: A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.

Syn.

– Learner; disciple; tyro.

– See Scholar.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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