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schoolboy

[ skool-boi ]

noun

  1. a boy attending school.


schoolboy

/ ˈːˌɔɪ /

noun

  1. a child attending school Gender-neutral formpupilschoolchild
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ǴDZbDzi adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolboy1

First recorded in 1580–90; school 1 + boy
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The picture shows the schoolboy prince smiling, set against a woodlands backdrop.

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Online commentators noted that the schoolboy's killing happened on a politically sensitive date - 18 September, the anniversary of an incident that led to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in China in the early 1930s.

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His loved ones gathered at Kinning Park Parish Church on Monday to remember the schoolboy, who has been described as "bright" and "kind".

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He said as a schoolboy he could not go to parties and how, as a teenager, he was made to train two or three times a day.

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A third teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the death of a schoolboy in Glasgow earlier this month.

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