With twenty-seven community volunteers making a commitment to Paris Elementary students, the Helping Hounds Volunteer Program was a great success. Please click here to view the newspaper article published in the April 6th edition of The Bourbon County Citizen.
Definition of practical for Students. 1  1 : of or relating to real action rather than ideas or thought practical matters. 2  2 : capable of being put to use : reasonable to do or use practical advice Those shoes are nice, but these are more practical. 3  3 : tending to act according to reason and logic Beezus, always practical, changed her mind.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to practical: Practical Magic. (prag'mÄ-tizm), A philosophy emphasizing practical applications and consequences of beliefs and theories, that the meaning of ideas or things is determined by the testability of the idea in real life. pragmatism. a philosophy concerned with actual practice and practical results as opposed to theory and speculation.