pupil
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pu·pil1 
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[pyoo-puhl] Pronunciation Key –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. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME pupille < MF < L pūpillus (masc.), pūpilla (fem.) orphan, ward, diminutives of pūpus boy, pūpa girl]
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pu·pil·less, adjective
—Synonyms 1. apprentice, novice. Pupil, disciple, scholar, student refer to a person who is studying, usually in a school. A pupil is one under the close supervision of a teacher, either because of youth or of specialization in some branch of study: a grade-school pupil; the pupil of a famous musician. A disciple is one who follows the teachings or doctrines of a person whom he or she considers to be a master or authority: a disciple of Swedenborg. Scholar, once meaning the same as pupil, is today usually applied to one who has acquired wide erudition in some field of learning: a great Latin scholar. A student is a person attending an educational institution or someone who has devoted much attention to a particular problem: a college student; a student of politics.
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pu·pil2
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[pyoo-puhl] Pronunciation Key –noun Anatomy.
| the expanding and contracting opening in the iris of the eye, through which light passes to the retina. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L pūpilla lit., little doll; for sense cf. Gk kóré girl, doll, pupil of the eye, alluding to the tiny reflections visible in the pupils. See pupa]
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pu·pil·less, adjective
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| pu·pil 1
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[Middle English pupille, orphan, from Old French, from Latin pūpillus, diminutive of pūpus, boy.] |
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| pu·pil 2
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n. The apparently black circular opening in the center of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to the retina. [Middle English, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla, little doll, pupil of the eye (from the tiny image reflected in it); see pupil1.] pu'pi·lar adj. |
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pupil (1)
pupil (1)
"student," 1382, originally "orphan child, ward," from O.Fr. pupille (14c.), from L. pupillus (fem. pupilla) "orphan, ward, minor," dim. of pupus "boy" (fem. pupa "girl"), probably related to puer "child," probably from PIE *pup-, from base *pu- "to swell, inflate." Meaning "disciple, student" first recorded 1563.
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pupil (2)
pupil (2)
"center of the eye," 1670 (in L. form from 1398), from O.Fr. pupille (14c.), from L. pupilla, originally "little girl-doll," dim. of pupa "girl, doll" (see pupil (1)), so called from the tiny image one sees of himself reflected in the eye of another. Gk. is said also to have used the same word, kore (lit. "girl"), to mean both "doll" and "pupil of the eye;" and cf. obsolete baby "small image of oneself in another's pupil" (1593), source of 17c. colloquial expression to look babies "stare lovingly into another's eyes."
"Self-knowledge can be obtained only by looking into the mind and virtue of the soul, which is the diviner part of a man, as we see our own image in another’s eye." [Plato, "Alcibiades," I.133]
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| pupil | |
noun | |
| 1. | a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution [syn: student] |
| 2. | the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot |
| 3. | a young person attending school (up through senior high school) [syn: schoolchild] |
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pupil
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The opening in the center of the iris through which light enters the eye.
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pupil
pupil
The seemingly black, central opening in the iris of the eye, through which light enters.
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pu'pi·lar adj.
pupil pu·pil (py&oomacr;'pəl)
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The apparently black circular opening in the center of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to the retina.
pu'pi·lar adj.
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Pupil
Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar.] (Anat.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. --Dunglison.
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Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. masc. & fem., L. pupillus, pupilla, dim. of pupus boy, pupa girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil of the eye.]1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. --Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. --L'Estrange. 2. A person under a guardian; a ward. --Dryden. 3. (Civil Law) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female. Syn: Learner; disciple; tyro. -- See Scholar.
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