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Meaning of schoolchild | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld

Definitions

A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.

Equivalents

Examples

“They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.”
“[…] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.”
“Spring ahead, fall back: Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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