student body
Americannoun
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student bodies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of student body
First recorded in 1920–25
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About half of the student body at Da Vinci Communications, the public charter school where Jackson still teaches, is economically disadvantaged, according to U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Cornell's student body held a campus meeting Thursday at which emotions ran high.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“We want to know what happened in this case and what went wrong,” said Eeshaan Chaudhuri, Cornell’s student body president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Imperfectly, still: The student body in the UC system is less than a quarter Latino, in a state where Latinos are 40% of the population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
To do what he asked was tantamount to my transferring entirely out of Hampden College into his own little academy of ancient Greek, student body five, six including me.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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