A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; h…
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Schoolchild
a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
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someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.a room in a school where lessons take place
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter…
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.One who learns; a scholar.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers…
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
Used in the same subject area: Education, Schools and education systems.a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
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A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; excl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.One confined to the bed by sickness.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.Older; more aged, or existing longer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.To hie.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.Less advanced in age than another; younger.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-chur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: young, attending, school, senior, high.One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They ar…
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