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Definition of Secondary school
1. Noun. A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12.
Generic synonyms: School
Specialized synonyms: Academy, Trade School, Vocational School, High, High School, Highschool, Senior High, Senior High School, Junior High, Junior High School, Prep School, Preparatory School, Public School, Grammar School, Secondary Modern School, Composite School, Comprehensive School
Definition of Secondary school
1. Noun. (schools) (British) In the UK, a state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secondary School
Literary usage of Secondary school
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It has been approved by the government as a recognized training college for
secondary school teachers, and has some 60 Jesuit students. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"secondary school PROGRAMMES—FRENCH AND AMERICAN. BY GEORGE W. BEAMAN. THE general
subject of American secondary school programmes has been of late years a ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... intending elementary teachers must in the future spend at least three years
in a "recognized" secondary school. The necessity of a sufficiency of such ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Character—the secondary school; its opportunity. G: B. Lawson. ... V School and
Soc 1:414-15 'Mr 30 '15 Efficiency in the public secondary school. ..."
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