English Explanatory Dictionary

secondary school

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.
  2. 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. 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).

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-secondary school.wav

Word forms

secondary school secondary schools

Synonyms

high school

Related words

national secondary school postsecondary school secondary education secondary modern comprehensive grammar school junior school middle school

Translations

Afrikaans: sekondêre skool Afrikaans: hoërskool Arabic: مَدْرَسَة ثَانَوِيَّة Arabic: ثَانَوِيَّة Azerbaijani: orta məktəb Azerbaijani: dəbiristan Bulgarian: средно училище Bulgarian: средно Bulgarian: гимназия Chinese Mandarin: 中學 /中学 Dutch: secundaire school Dutch: school voor voortgezet onderwijs Dutch: middelbare school Esperanto: gimnazio Esperanto: mezlernejo Esperanto: liceo Finnish: yläaste ja lukio French: école secondaire French: lycée French: collège German: Mittelschule German: Oberschule Greek: λύκειο Haitian Creole: lekòl segondè Hungarian: középiskola Icelandic: framhaldsskóli Icelandic: menntaskóli Ido: gimnazio Indonesian: sekolah menengah Indonesian: sekolah lanjutan Irish: ardscoil Irish: meánscoil Italian: liceo (lyceum) Italian: ginnasio Italian: liceo classico Italian: liceo scientifico Italian: liceo linguistico Italian: liceo artistico (art lyceum) Italian: scuola secondaria Italian: scuola superiore Japanese: 中学校 Japanese: 高校 Khmer: សាលាទុតិយៈ Khmer: អនុវិទ្យាល័យ Latvian: vidusskola Luxembourgish: Lycée Macedonian: средно училиште Malay: sekolah menengah Brunei Malay: skulah menengah Manchu: ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠᡳ ᡨᠠᠴᡳᡴᡡ Persian: دبیرستان Polish: szkoła średnia Portuguese: secundária Portuguese: liceu Romanian: liceu Romanian: școală secundară Romanian: gimnaziu Russian: сре́дняя шко́ла Scottish Gaelic: àrd-sgoil Slovak: stredná škola Spanish: secundaria Spanish: escuela secundaria Swahili: sekondari Swahili: shule ya upili Swahili: shule ya sekondari Tagalog: mataas na paaralan Tagalog: paaralang sekundaryo Tagalog: sekundarya Vietnamese: trường trung học Welsh: ysgol uwchradd Zhuang: cunghyoz
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