1. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
   "The pupils were eager to begin their new course of study";
   - student, educatee
    
2. A young person attending school (up through senior high school)
   "The bus was filled with noisy pupils on their way home";
   - schoolchild, school-age child, schoolkid [informal], schoolie [Austral, informal]
    
3. The contractile aperture in the centre of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot
   "His pupils dilated in the dark room"

Sounds like: pummel, p, pupil

Derived forms: pupils

Type of: aperture, enrollee, spring chicken, younker [archaic], youth

Part of: iris, teacher-student relation

Encyclopedia: Pupil