student bodies

Schools' enrolled learners

Student bodies refers to the collective enrollment of educational institutions—all the students at a school, college, or university considered as a group: The student body voted to extend library hours.

The plural indicates multiple such groups: Student bodies across the country protested the policy.

The phrase also puns darkly on corpses, appearing in horror contexts involving dead students.

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freshmen · crowd · morgue · assembly · corpses · enrollment · peers · campus life · medical schools · higher education · anatomy lab · dissection · colleges · association · class president · graduate schools · extracurricular activities · dorm life

Opposites
institutional role/constituency

student bodiesfaculty

Inherent power or ability

teaching staff · administration · instructors · educators · support staff

organizational structure

student bodiesadministration

Organizational oversight and control

board of trustees · executive leadership · regents · school board · trustees

Family

study, student, studied, studio, students, studies, studious, studios, studiously

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G