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Definition: Schoolchild |
SchoolchildNoun1. A child attending school. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: SchoolchildSynonym: pupil (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: schoolchildren (education). |
Crosswords: Schoolchild |
| English words defined with "schoolchild": day boarder. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Schoolchild, Southeast Missouri Farms.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "schoolchild": schoolchild-fashion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
schoolchild | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 aluno (Bob, listener, pupil, schoolboy, student). (various references) alumno (disciple, junior, nurseling, pupil, scholar, schoolboy, sophomore, student). (various references) skolbarn. (various references) школяр (schoolboy), дитина шкільного віку. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "schoolchild": schoolchildren. (additional references) | |
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"Schoolchild" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schoolhill. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "schoolchild" (pronounced skuw"lkhī'ld) |
| 4 | -kh ī' l d | brainchild, grandchild, stepchild. |
| 3 | -ī' l d | exiled, profiled, reconciled, stockpiled, unreconciled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 6F 6F 6C 63 68 69 6C 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .... --- --- .-.. -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101100 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h o o l c h i l d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369748181786974757870 |
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