sixth-former

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sixth form +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

sixth-former (plural sixth-formers)

  1. (UK, Australia) A pupil in the sixth form.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
      [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.
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