DAY BOARDER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("day boarder" is a kind of...):

pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "day boarder"):

dayboy (a day boarder who is a boy)

daygirl (a day boarder who is a girl)