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schooler

American

[skoo-ler] / ˈsku lər /

noun

a person who attends school, especially a child (usually used in combination).

a new course for junior-high-schoolers.

Etymology

Origin of schooler

From parasynthetic derivatives with school ¹ and a preceding attributive; see -er ¹

Example Sentences

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A high schooler can enroll as early as freshman year and earn up to 11 college credits per semester.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

He played the titular Dawson Leery, a soft-hearted and naive high schooler coming of age in a small Massachusetts town.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2026

Her family and friends told the newspaper that every time Rivas Hernandez ran away, she would eventually return and blend back into her life as a middle schooler.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

Why did a high schooler need to own a blazer?

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2025

Knowing Babbage was a middle schooler just like them made her all the more irritated that he or she had poached Tom Sawyer.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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