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comprehensive schools

comprehensive schools is the plural of comprehensive school.

Meaning of comprehensive school

Noun

comprehensive school (plural comprehensive schools)

  1. (UK) a normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools
    Synonyms:
    comp

Questions about comprehensive schools

What is comprehensive schools the plural of?
Comprehensive schools is the plural of comprehensive school.

Words near comprehensive schools in the dictionary

  1. comprehensive coverage
  2. comprehensive distancing
  3. comprehensive insurance
  4. comprehensive insurances
  5. comprehensive school
  6. comprehensive schools
  7. comprehensively
  8. comprehensiveness
  9. comprehensives
  10. comprehensivisation
  11. comprehensivise

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