Synonyms for pupil
Most common
student disciple learner protégé school child sidekick schoolgirl
Definitions
- n. 1
A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.
Related words
- Word family
- pupildom pupilhood
- Phrases
- day pupil pupil teacher
Forms
- Plural
- pupils → students, learners, disciples, protégés…
Choose the right word
Pupil signifies one under the close personal supervision or instruction of a teacher or tutor. The word pupil is uniformly so used in the Reports of the Commissioner of Education of the United States, but popular American usage prefers scholar in the original sense; as, teachers and scholars enjoyed a holiday.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- student More than one student studies French in our class.
- disciple You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
- learner That's a perfect game to torture a language-learner.
- sidekick Tom has a sidekick named John.
By length
- 4 letters
- tyro
- 6 letters
- novice2, mentee
- 7 letters
- student2, learner2
- 8 letters
- follower3, beginner3, disciple3, sidekick2, neophyte3, educatee
- 10 letters
- apprentice3, schoolgirl2, catechumen
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (novice2 = 2 syllables).