Word Meanings - PUPIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil , the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

Additional info about word: PUPIL

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil , the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison. (more info) eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUPIL)

• Beginner
• Tyro
• novice
• neophyte
• learner
• pupil
• Catechumen
• scholar
• Learner
• student
• beginner
• disciple
• catechumen
• Scholar
• Pupil
• schoolman
• scientist
• savant
• gownsman
• linguist

Related words: (words related to PUPIL)

• SCHOLARSHIP
  1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
• CATECHUMENIST
  A catechumen. Bp. Morton.
• CATECHUMENATE
  The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
• GOWNSMAN; GOWNMAN
  One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
• STUDENTRY
  A body of students.
• STUDENT
  1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a
• NOVICE
  One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer. (more info) 1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in
• CATECHUMEN
  One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
• LINGUIST
  1. A master of the use of language; a talker. I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster. 2. A person skilled in languages. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Macaulay.
• PUPILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.
• DISCIPLESS
  A female disciple.
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• LINGUISTICS
  The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
• SCHOLARLY
  Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.
• PUPILLARITY
  The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females. (more info) Law)
• LINGUISTIC; LINGUISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
• DISCIPLESHIP
  The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. Jer. Taylor.
• DISCIPLE
  One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior. The
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• SCHOLARLIKE
  Scholarly. Bacon.
• CONDISCIPLE
  A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
• BILINGUIST
  One versed in two languages.