1 (especially BrE, becoming old-fashioned) a person who is being taught, especially a child in a school:
How many pupils does the school have? * She now teaches only private pupils. -< STUDENT
2 a person who is taught artistic, musical, etc. skills by an expert:
The painting is by a pupil of Rembrandt.
3 the small round black area at the centre of the eye:
Her pupils were dilated.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for pupil is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pupil a noun, verb, or something else?
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