Definition

1. Noun:
   • A male student who attends a boarding school during the day but returns home each evening: A "dayboy" is specifically a boy who is enrolled as a day student at a boarding school. He participates in the school's academic and often extracurricular activities during the day but does not reside in the school's boarding houses.

Usage

• The term is used primarily in the context of traditional boarding schools, especially in the UK and Commonwealth countries, to distinguish between students who board full-time and those who attend only during school hours.
• It is a compound noun formed from "day" and "boy." The female equivalent is "daygirl."

Examples

• Noun:
  • The school has 300 boarders and 100 dayboys.
  • As a dayboy, he caught the bus home every afternoon after rugby practice.

Advanced Usage

• The concept highlights a specific category within a school's student population, often involving different fee structures and levels of involvement in the school community.
• The status can sometimes informally influence social dynamics between boarders and day students.

Variants and Related Words

• Day student: A more general, gender-neutral term for a non-boarding student.
• Daygirl (noun): A female day student at a boarding school.
• Boarder (noun): A student who lives at the school.
• Day boarder: A synonymous, though less common, term for a day student at a boarding school.

Synonyms

• Day student
• Day pupil (less common)
• Non-boarder

Antonyms

• Boarder
• Resident student

Noun

1. a day boarder who is a boy