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sixth-former en · NOUN

Etymology

From sixth form + -er.

Meanings

  1. (Australia, UK) A pupil in the sixth form.
    • [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules. 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:

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