schooler

See also: Schooler

English

Etymology

From school +‎ -er. Compare the similarly formed English scholar.

Noun

schooler (plural schoolers)

  1. A student, or in some cases member, of a particular type of school or schooling. (ordinarily used in combinations such as "high schooler")
    Those kids are all junior high schoolers.
    We're a bunch of old-schoolers.
    • 2017 June 7, AnneClaire Stapleton, “Students get yearbooks with N-word on the cover”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Some middle schoolers are learning that history isn’t always meant to be celebrated after the N-word was inadvertently printed on the front cover of their yearbooks.
  2. One who provides schooling; a teacher.
    • 1902, Alec John Dawson, Hidden Manna‎[2], page 48:
      Is the Shareef of Ain Araish a schooler of servants and waiting men?

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