SCHOOLCHILD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schoolchild mean? 

• SCHOOLCHILD (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLCHILD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SCHOOLCHILD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOLCHILD (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 ("schoolchild" 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 "schoolchild"):

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 

This theory became widely accepted and is taught to schoolchildren today but it had never been conclusively proved.

(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

More than 2000 London primary schoolchildren, from a range of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, were included in the study, which looked at their physical activity levels, body composition and socioeconomic status.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)

As an overall conclusion, the study corroborates that schoolchildren who use backpacks should avoid carrying loads greater than 10% of their body weight.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

“Well,” he added after he had dosed them round and they had taken his prescriptions, with really laughable humility, more like charity schoolchildren than blood-guilty mutineers and pirates—“well, that's done for today.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Based on results from more than 2000 primary-age schoolchildren from across London, the researchers found that walking or cycling to school is a strong predictor of obesity levels, a result which was consistent across neighbourhoods, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)

The study is the first to assess the impact of physical activity on childhood overweight and obesity levels for primary schoolchildren by simultaneously relating two of the main types of extracurricular physical activity: daily commuting to school and frequency of participation in sport.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)