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SCHOOL-AGE CHILD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young person attending school (up through senior high school)
Synonyms:
pupil; school-age child; schoolchild
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("school-age child" 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 "school-age child"):
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)