schoolchild
noun
- person studying in a school
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/ / /ˈsku.əlt͡ʃaɪld/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English school English child English schoolchild From school + child.
- A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
“They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.”
“[…] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.”