day-scholar

English

Alternative forms

• day scholar

Noun

day-scholar (plural day-scholars)

1. A pupil who attends a day school.
2. A pupil who attends a boarding school during the day, but lives at home.
   • 1911, Marian Campbell Gouverneur, As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century, D. Appleton, page 216:

     My intimacy with these sisters goes back as far as my school days at Madame Chegaray's, where Frances Kellogg was a boarding pupil and in a class higher than mine when I was a day-scholar.