pupil
nounA youth or any person of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor; in general, a scholar; a disciple.
nounA ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian.
nounIn civil law, a person under puberty (fourteen for males, twelve for females), over whom a guardian has been appointed.
Under age; in a state of pupilage or nonage; minor.
nounThe orifice of the iris; the hole or opening in the iris through which light passes.
nounIn zoology: The central dark part of an ocellated spot. See
A dark, apparently interior, spot seen in the compound eyes of certain insects, and changing in position as it is viewed from different sides.
nounThe aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under
the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole.
nounA youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.