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Noun: pupil  pyoo-pul
  1. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
    - student, educatee
     
  2. The contractile aperture in the centre of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot
     
  3. A young person attending school (up through senior high school)
    - schoolchild, school-age child, schoolie [Austral, informal], schoolkid [informal]

Sounds like: pummel, p, pupil

Derived forms: pupils

Type of: aperture, enrollee, spring chicken, younker, youth

Part of: iris, teacher-student relation

Encyclopedia: Pupil