dux
noun
the pupil who is academically first in a class or school.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The duxes from the schools suffered a little during their first year, from a feeling that they and Sellar understood each other.
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie