Schoolchild

  

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Schoolchild

Definition: Schoolchild

Schoolchild

Noun

1. A child attending school.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonym: Schoolchild

Synonym: pupil (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: schoolchildren (education).

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Crosswords: Schoolchild

English words defined with "schoolchild": day boarder. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Schoolchild

Computer Images:
Schoolchild

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Photo Album: Schoolchild

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Schoolchild, Southeast Missouri Farms.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Schoolchild

"Schoolchild" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Schoolchild" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Schoolchild

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "schoolchild": schoolchild-fashion.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Schoolchild

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

schoolchild

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Schoolchild

Language Translations for "schoolchild"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

学童. (various references)

   

French

  

écolier (scholar, schoolboy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scolaro (pupil, scholar, schoolboy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

食児童 (schoolchild without lunch). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

けっしょくじどう (schoolchild without lunch). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

학동. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oolchildschay

   

Portuguese

  

aluno (Bob, listener, pupil, schoolboy, student). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alumno (disciple, junior, nurseling, pupil, scholar, schoolboy, sophomore, student). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skolbarn. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

школяр (schoolboy), дитина шкільного віку. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Schoolchild

Derivations

Words beginning with "schoolchild": schoolchildren. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Schoolchild" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schoolhill. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Schoolchild"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "schoolchild" (pronounced skuw"lkhī'ld)
4-kh ī' l dbrainchild, grandchild, stepchild.
3-ī' l dexiled, profiled, reconciled, stockpiled, unreconciled.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Schoolchild

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-h-h-i-l-l-o-o-s"

-3 letters: colloids.

-4 letters: coldish, colloid, coolish, dollish.

-5 letters: chicos, chills, cholos, cohosh, colics, hillos, hollos, oldish, school.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-d-h-h-i-l-l-o-o-s"
 

+3 letters: schoolchildren.

 

+5 letters: dolichocephalies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Schoolchild


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 68 6F 6F 6C 63 68 69 6C 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ....    ---    ---    .-..    -.-.    ....    ..    .-..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101100 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#108 &#99 &#104 &#105 &#108 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C 0063 0068 0069 006C 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5369748181786974757870

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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