pupils on academic ability 3. a private soci-ety for the study of art or science

One who cares for and guides a group of people, as a minister or teacher, A man who herds, tends, and guards sheep in pasture; a pastor, A person who tends sheep, verb_ To watch over; to guide, watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils, tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats, transitive verb_ Poetic To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd, To direct or instruct in a certain manner, To guide or lead on a course

An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age, An institution within or associated with a college or university that gives instruction in a specialized field and recommends candidates for degrees, An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils, intransitive verb_ To swim in or form into a school, transitive verb_ To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train, To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach, To educate in or as if in a schoo

A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event, A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day, A period during which pupils and students do not attend their school or university, verb_ To take a period of time away from work or study, spend or take a vacation, intransitive verb_ To pass a holiday or vacation, adjective_ Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay, Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion

Plural form of pupil