schoolchild

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
24
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/
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/ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/ · /ˈsku.əlt͡ʃaɪld/

Definition of schoolchild

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
    “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.”
    “[…] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.”
    “Spring ahead, fall back: Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it.”

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Etymology

From school + child.

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8-letter words

1 word

7-letter words

4 words

6-letter words

12 words

5-letter words

46 words

4-letter words

58 words

3-letter words

38 words

2-letter words

14 words

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