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pupilless

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pu⋅pil

1  [pyoo-puhl]
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–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

Related forms:
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.

pu⋅pil

2  [pyoo-puhl]
–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 kórē girl, doll, pupil of the eye, alluding to the tiny reflections visible in the pupils. See pupa

Related forms:
pu⋅pil⋅less, adjective
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Cultural Dictionary

pupil

The seemingly black, central opening in the iris of the eye, through which light enters.

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Word Origin & History

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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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pu·pil
Pronunciation: 'pyü-p&l
Function: noun
: the contractile usually round aperture in the iris of the eye
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Medical Dictionary

pupil pu·pil (py&oomacr;'pəl)
n.
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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Science Dictionary
pupil   (py'pəl)  Pronunciation Key 
The opening in the center of the iris through which light enters the eye.
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