 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pupil
noun
1: a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
[syn: {student}, {educatee}]
2: contractile aperture in the iris of the eye
3: a young person attending school (up through senior high
school) [syn: {schoolchild}, {school-age child}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pupil \Pu"pil\, noun [F. pupille, noun fem., L. pupilla the pupil of
the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See {Puppet}, and
cf. {Pupil} a scholar.] (Anat.)
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pupil \Pu"pil\, noun [F. pupille, noun 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) 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}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "pupil":
apprentice, auditor, autodidact, baby blues, banjo eyes, beginner,
bright eyes, catechumen, clear eyes, cornea, disciple, educatee,
eye, eyeball, eyelid, goggle eyes, inquirer, iris, learner, lens,
lid, monitor, naked eye, neophyte, nictitating membrane, novice,
oculus, optic, optic nerve, orb, organ of vision, peeper, popeyes,
praepostor, prefect, retina, saucer eyes, scholar, schoolboy,
schoolgirl, sclera, self-taught person, starry orbs, student,
studier, trainee, tyro, unaided eye, visual organ
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