Pupil

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L'Estrange.

2. A person under a guardian; a ward. Dryden.

3. A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.

Synonyms: Learner; disciple; tyro. See Scholar.