exchange student

noun

1. a secondary-school or college student who studies for a period, usually one year, at a foreign institution as part of a reciprocal program between two institutions or countries.

Example Sentences

When I was an exchange student in Sweden, I lived with an old aunt who lived in a crumbling castle outside of Stockholm.

From Washington Post

Macdonald later studied as an exchange student in France, where she lived with the family that had quartered her father during the war, according to an obituary published in the Guardian.

From Washington Post

There was the time he exploded a cherry bomb in a toilet at school and, as punishment, sent to France as an exchange student.

From The Daily Beast

Meredith Kercher, a bright and beautiful 21-year-old from Leeds, was enjoying the happy-go-lucky life of an exchange student.

From The Daily Beast

As an exchange student teaching in Mexico, where he met his future wife, Bush gained fluency in Spanish.

From The Daily Beast

And I asked him if he was an exchange student—if he went over as an exchange student.

From Project Gutenberg