Usually means: Opening in iris, admits light.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word pupil:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pupil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pupil: Merriam-Webster
  3. pupil, pupil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pupil, pupil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pupil: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pupil: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pupil, pupil: Wordnik
  8. pupil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pupil: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. pupil: Wiktionary
  11. pupil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pupil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pupil: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. pupil: Dictionary.com
  15. pupil (1), pupil (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. pupil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Pupil (band), Pupil (disambiguation), Pupil, The Pupil (TV series), The Pupil (short story): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Pupil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. pupil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. pupil: Rhymezone
  21. pupil (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. pupil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. pupil: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pupil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pupil: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. pupil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pupil: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Pupil (eye), pupil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pupil (eye), Pupil (optics), pupil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. pupil: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pupil: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Pupil: LASIK Eye Surgery Glossary
  8. pupil: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. Pupil (eye), pupil: Medical dictionary
  10. Pupil: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  12. Pupil: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  13. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pupil: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pupil: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pupillary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (dated outside UK) A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.
noun:  One who studies under supervision of a renowned expert in their field.
noun:  (law, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
noun:  (anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.
noun:  (zoology) The central dark part of an ocellated spot.

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