Children vs Pupil - What's the difference?
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (legal, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
(senseid)A student under the supervision of a teacher or professor.
* 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.
As nouns the difference between children and pupil
is that children is while pupil is (legal|obsolete) an orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state or pupil can be (anatomy) the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.children
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(head)citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
pupil
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 575
- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Etymology 2
(wikipedia pupil) From (etyl) pupille, from (etyl) , named because of the small reflected image seen when looking into someone's eye.Noun
(en noun)- Why did your pupils dilate when you saw me topless? Do you like me or something?