Word.ws English Dictionary

high-school

high-school is the alternative form of high school.

Meaning of high school

Noun

high school (countable and uncountable, plural high schools)

  1. An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.
  2. (Australia, Canada, Scotland, US) A secondary school.
  3. (Philippines) A secondary education school, consisting of junior high school and senior high school (grades 7-12)
  4. (Philippines, historical) A secondary education school for years 1-4 (now junior high school)

Forms of high-school

pluralhigh-schools

Questions about high-school

What is high-school the alternative form of?
High-school is the alternative form of high school.

Words near high-school in the dictionary

  1. high-rises
  2. high-risk
  3. high-risk, high-reward
  4. high-roller
  5. high-rollers
  6. high-school
  7. high-schooler
  8. high-schoolers
  9. high-score table
  10. high-score tables
  11. high-seeded

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: high-school (page history and authors); high school (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “high-school.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/high-school. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.