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
Example Sentences
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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
This is particularly true since, unlike most of the countries ranked by the OECD, the student body in major American school districts is overwhelmingly low-income and heavily immigrant.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
The student body has been getting younger, with "a lot more students from the high schools" enrolling at Apex Technical School, said Zelda Cuesta, agency coordinator.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Because this assembly is strictly for the student body, Obie. The brothers are not involved. But everybody else will be there.”
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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