pupils
- 1Plural of pupil.
The school enrolled more than four hundred pupils this year.
The doctor checked whether both pupils responded to the light.
Note
One spelling covers two quite different families: people under instruction and the openings at the center of the eyes. Context nearly always settles it. Pupils enroll, study or sit exams; pupils dilate, contract or respond to light. The learner meaning also stretches to someone trained by a renowned expert, and an older use, now obsolete, named an orphaned minor under state protection. The dark center of an eyespot is called a pupil as well.
pupils is a form of pupil
pupil, noun: The opening in the middle of the iris through which light passes to reach the retina. Full entry
- Forms
- pupilpupils plural
- Spelling
- pupil → pupils: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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