exchange student

American  

noun

exchange students plural

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.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• exchange students
  plural

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exchange student

Mary Millben first traveled to China in 2006 as an exchange student from the University of Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

"You don't normally get an exchange student player who is such a high calibre athlete," he recalled.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025

Knox, the American former exchange student who became the focus of a sensationalized Italian murder case, has long been vocal about the ethics of using true-crime stories as source material in entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

Consider what happened to Daniela Shields, whose daughter Alli was an exchange student in Hong Kong in 2019.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

Hassan said, “I'm a Kuwaiti exchange student; my dad's an oil baron.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green