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high school meaning

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WHigh school
  • A high school (also secondary school, senior school, secondary college) is a school that provides adolescents with part or all of their secondary education.

    Definition of high school in English Dictionary

  • NounPLhigh schools
    1. (education) An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.
      1. (Canada, US, Australia) secondary school.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Stressing American ideals, seven San Diego City high schools last spring presented a series of weekly radio dramas based on the lives of Great Americans.
          • He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life.
          • The Busby Berkeley stylisations are grim enough, but the high school lawn-mowing has to be seen to be disbelieved.
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • High school was difficult, but it was a walk in the park compared to college engineering classes.
        3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • They were doing a modified frug, a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
        Related Links:
        1. en high schools
        2. en high schooler
        3. en high schoolers
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of high school for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this idiom "high school" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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