Word Meanings - SCHOOLBOY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
Related words: (words related to SCHOOLBOY)
- SCHOOL-TEACHER
One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n. - SCHOOLSHIP
A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - SCHOOLHOUSE
A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction. - SCHOOLROOM
A room in which pupils are taught. - ATTEND
L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney. - BELONG
attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place - 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 - ATTENDANT
Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, - SCHOOLWARD
Toward school. Chaucer. - SCHOOLMISTRESS
A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher. - SCHOOLMATE
A pupil who attends the same school as another. - ATTENDANCE
1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times - SCHOOLMA'AM
A schoolmistress. - ATTENDANCY
The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant. - ATTENDER
One who, or that which, attends. - SCHOOLERY
Something taught; precepts; schooling. penser. - SCHOOLING
1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching. 2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. Sir W. Scott. 3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid - SCHOOLBOOK
A book used in schools for learning lessons. - BELONGING
1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household. - PUBLIC SCHOOL
In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually - CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the - BARBIZON SCHOOL; BARBISON SCHOOL
A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with - MISATTEND
To misunderstand; to disregard. Milton. - VESTED SCHOOL
In Ireland, a national school which has been built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and