Definitions for pupil

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pupil pu·pil

Spelling: [pyoo-puh l]

IPA: /ˈpyu pəl/

Pupil is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in pupil (ilppu).

Definitions for pupil

noun

1. a person, usually young, who is learning under the close supervision of a teacher at school, a private tutor, or the like; student.
2. Civil Law. an orphaned or emancipated minor under the care of a guardian.
3. Roman Law. a person under the age of puberty orphaned or emancipated, and under the care of a guardian.
4. the expanding and contracting opening in the iris of the eye, through which light passes to the retina.

Origin of pupil

1350-1400; Middle English pupille Middle French Latin pūpillus (masculine), pūpilla (feminine) orphan, ward, diminutives of pūpus boy, pūpa girl

Examples for pupil

Of course these are derivative, too, almost as though Serra were his own pupil, or a forger of his own pieces.

Each time the pupil showed it the master said, 'Go on and finish it.'

To Cimabue succeeded his pupil, the famous Giotto, who died in 1337.

In high school Miller filled out a “pupil Information Sheet.”

The injury left his pupil permanently dilated, making that eye appear to be a different color than the other.

The value of leisure was one subject on which both teacher and pupil agreed.

But that pupil had a better protection in the sacred ambition stirring in her.

The Genius of Mozart is still in mourning and she weeps for the death of her pupil.

For her part, she taught me so much more that it seems effrontery to call her my pupil.

They were not quite ready yet, for they were still caressing the pupil.