Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Hong Kong, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable)A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.

    Mittelschule, Oberschule

    сре́дняя шко́лаsrédnjaja škóla

    a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12

  2. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable)The federally designated, graduation-separated classification of grades 9–12 (approximately ages 14–18), regardless of whether they are compiled together in one school or separate from the other grades.

  3. (Singapore, countable, uncountable)Middle school; junior high school; a school that one attends between the ages of 12-17 (equivalent of grades 7-10 in North America, and years 7-10 in Australia).

Examples

108 sentences
  1. Tom is a secondary school teacher.

  2. Tom and Mary are secondary school teachers.

  3. "All secondary schools are the same," I thought to myself.

  4. She used to play football for her secondary school football team.

    ruРаньше она играла в футбол в команде своей средней школы. — Ooneykcall

  5. When I was at secondary school, I would get up at six in the morning.

    Коли я вчилася у старших класах, я вставала о шостій ранку. — deniko

    deAls ich in der High School war, stand ich um sechs Uhr morgens auf. — Esperantostern

Translations

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Forms

plural: secondary schools

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

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