schoolperson
English
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editschoolperson (plural schoolpersons or schoolpeople)
- (nonstandard, rare, sometimes humorous) A schoolchild, pupil, or student of any gender.
- 1978, Dick Amann, Dick Smith, Forgotten Women of Computer History:
- But, schoolpersons everywhere are learning this story, and questioning it. "How," little school people ask, "could Ben Franklin have flown a kite in a lightning storm, with a key at the end of the kite's string, and not get killed?"