SCHOOL-AGE CHILD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does school-age child mean? 

• SCHOOL-AGE CHILD (noun)
  The noun SCHOOL-AGE CHILD has 1 sense:

1. a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

  Familiarity information: SCHOOL-AGE CHILD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOL-AGE CHILD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person attending school (up through senior high school)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pupil; school-age child; schoolchild

Hypernyms ("school-age child" is a kind of...):

spring chicken; young person; younker; youth (a young person (especially a young man or boy))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "school-age child"):

boarder (a pupil who lives at school during term time)

day boarder (a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home)

latchkey child (a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work))

schoolboy (a boy attending school)

 Context examples 

Other than checkups, school-age children should be seen for: • Significant weight gain or loss • Sleep problems or change in behavior • Fever higher than 102 • Rashes or skin infections • Frequent sore throats • Breathing problems

(Children's Health, NIH)

Therefore, we must educate our school-age children and young people, as well as teachers, about the importance of avoiding spending long periods of time sitting down to considerably reduce the negative consequences of a sedentary lifestyle such as excess weight and obesity, or the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)