STUDENTS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

students

noun

plural of student

as in pupils

one who attends a school a straight-A student at the local high school

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Recent Examples of students Like many of her fellow college students, Stephanie Park has kept a close eye on how AI might affect her career prospects. — Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026 The documentary captures the everyday life of the director and his fellow students at the Central African Republic’s Bangui University. — Ed Meza, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026 Health-care professionals could sell medical records; students could sell exams; aides and staffers could sell political dirt; anyone with security clearance could pay off their mortgage or buy a new car. — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 Sojourner's name was selected in 1995 from a worldwide naming contest for students and suggested by 12-year-old Valerie Ambroise of Bridgeport, Connecticut. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 JaKyra Allen, 22, was in the first cohort of students to need a master’s degree before entering the dietetics workforce. — Lauren Chan, STAT, 1 Sep. 2026 Teacher coverage has fallen sharply, uniforms meet just a fraction of demand, forcing officials to recruit retirees and students while parents shoulder school meals and supplies once guaranteed by Cuba’s vaunted system. — Dánica Coto, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Between tuition, books, supplies and all the other costs that arrive with a new academic year, transportation is one area where students and families may be looking to save. — New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026 Among those aboard were 35 Syracuse University students returning home from a semester abroad. — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Their children – Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five – are enrolled to start as day pupils at a mixed independent school next month.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026
Their heads are broad and coppery in color, and their eyes have vertical, catlike pupils.

— Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 19 Aug. 2026

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This coexistence of one god and many gods may initially appear contradictory, but a clearer picture emerges by tracing the history of how Hindu texts, traditions, and thinkers—and some Western scholars—have answered this question.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
But legal scholars say those cases are different because the doctors weren't in Louisiana and never fled the state and became fugitives.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

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