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Student vs Children - What's the difference?

student | children |

As nouns the difference between student and children

is that student is a person who studies a particular academic subject while children is plural of lang=en.

student

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who studies a particular academic subject.
  • A student of philosophy.
  • (figuratively) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not.
  • He is a student of life.
  • A person enrolled at a university.
  • The students were out raising funds for rag week.
  • (chiefly, North America) A schoolchild.
  • Synonyms

    * (person who studies a particular subject) scholar * (person seriously devoted to some subject) devotee * (schoolchild) pupil, schoolchild * disciple

    Antonyms

    * teacher

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    children

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (head)
  • .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 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. […]’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}