schoolchild

English

Alternative forms

• school-child, school child

Etymology

school +‎ child

Pronunciation

• enPR: skōōlchīld, IPA^(key): /ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/, IPA^(key): /ˈsku.əlt͡ʃaɪld/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: school‧child

Noun

schoolchild (plural schoolchildren)

1. A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:

     They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

   • 2011, Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals:

     Spring ahead, fall back: Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it.

Synonyms

• pupil, student (especially US)
• schoolkid (informal)

Hyponyms

• schoolboy
• schoolgirl

Translations

young person attending school or of an age to attend school

• Arabic: تِلْمِيذ m (tilmīḏ), تِلْمِيذَة f (tilmīḏa)
• Armenian: (boy, or unspecified sex) աշակերտ (hy) (ašakert), (girl) աշակերտուհի (hy) (ašakertuhi)
• Azerbaijani: şagird (az), məktəbli
• Bashkir: уҡыусы (uqıwsı)
• Burmese: ကျောင်းသား (my) (kyaung:sa:) (male), ကျောင်းသူ (my) (kyaung:su) (female)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 學生／学生 (hok⁶ saang¹)

  Hokkien: 學生／学生 (zh-min-nan) (ha̍k-seng)

  Mandarin: 學生／学生 (zh) (xuéshēng), 弟子 (zh) (dìzǐ)

• Danish: skolebarn (da) n, skoleelev (da) c
• Dutch: schoolkind (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: koululainen (fi)
• French: élève (fr) m or f, écolier (fr) m, écolière (fr) f
• German: Schulkind (de) n, (boy, or unspecified sex) Schüler (de) m, (girl) Schülerin (de) f
• Greek: μαθητής (el) m (mathitís), μαθήτρια (el) f (mathítria)
• Hebrew: תַּלְמִיד (he) m (talmíd)
• Hiligaynon: estudyante, palatuon
• Hindi: स्कूल विद्यार्थी m (skūl vidyārthī)
• Hungarian: tanuló (hu), iskolás (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schiler m, Schilerin f
• Icelandic: skólabarn n, skólakrakki m
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: páiste scoile m
• Italian: (boy, or unspecified sex) alunno m, (girl) alunna f, scolaro (it) m, scolara (it) f
• Japanese: 学童 (ja) (がくどう, gakudō), 児童 (ja) (じどう, jidō), 生徒 (ja) (せいと, seito), 学生 (ja) (がくせい, gakusei), 弟子 (ja) (でし, deshi)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: áłchíní ółtaʼígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skolebarn n

  Nynorsk: skolebarn n, skulebarn n

• Polish: uczeń (pl) m, szkolniak (pl) m
• Portuguese: estudante (pt) m or f, aluno (pt) m
• Romanian: școlar (ro) m, școlăriță (ro) f, elev (ro) m, elevă (ro) f
• Russian: учени́к (ru) m (učeník), учени́ца (ru) f (učeníca), шко́льник (ru) m (škólʹnik), шко́льница (ru) f (škólʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ученик m, ученица f

  Roman: učenik (sh) m, učenica (sh) f

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wuknik m, wuknica f

• Spanish: escolar (es) m or f, (boy, or unspecified sex) alumno m, (girl) alumna f, colegiala (es) f, colegial (es) m
• Swedish: skolbarn (sv) n
• Tagalog: estudyante (tl), mag-aaral
• Tajik: талаба (tg) (talaba)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• West Frisian: skoallebern n