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Pupil   /pjˈupəl/   Listen
noun
Pupil  n.  (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.



Pupil  n.  
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." "Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils."
2.
A person under a guardian; a ward.
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.
Synonyms: Learner; disciple; tyro. See Scholar.






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"Pupil" Quotes from Famous Books



... Smith's ex-pupil looked at it a bit askance, and Miss Doane proceeded in a somewhat harrowing attempt to discover and lay bare anything in the ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various

... view of becoming a professional actress; for, although Walker did not at all care for the stage or its concomitants, still he did not wish to throw any obstacles in the way of his adopted child's prosperity. Margery, therefore, was allowed to pursue the bent of her inclinations, and such an apt pupil was she that in a little over eighteen months her debut was announced in the papers, and a crowded house showered floral and other trophies on the beautiful debutante. Offers of engagements from different cities came flowing in, and before long Miss Margery Montague was announced to ...
— The Mysteries of Montreal - Being Recollections of a Female Physician • Charlotte Fuhrer

... friendly warnings from his mind. But although the gloomy prognostications of his Job's comforters failed in the least to depress his spirits, one very small cloud hovered occasionally on the horizon. This was the attitude of his worthy and respected prospective pupil and brother-in-law, Arthur Herapath. That young gentleman, who had been prudently kept in the dark while term lasted, was, as may be imagined, considerably astounded on arriving home to be met with ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed

... how each author's words spring from his life, and conversely how facts and circumstances of his life can be elicited from his words. There will always remain doubts as to the facts and dates, e.g., in Horace's or in Catullus' life; but any reasoned theory has its interest, and is better for the pupil than no theory. The present book will, as I hope, be found useful as an aid to that method of teaching and of study, provided that both teacher and pupil bear in mind that it is a companion to other books—not a book complete ...
— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton

... Arjuna, those two foremost of car-warriors, preceptor and pupil, both skilled in weapon, O monarch, fought with each other in battle, stupefying the eyes and minds of men with their lightness in the use of weapons and the sureness of their aim, and with the motions of their ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli


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