high school
/ˈhʌɪskul//ˈhaɪ.skul/
high school noun: an institution which provides all or part of secondary education.
Noun
high school (countable and uncountable, plural high schools)
- An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.
- A secondary school.
- A secondary education school, consisting of junior high school and senior high school (grades 7-12)
- A secondary education school for years 1-4 (now junior high school)
high school meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Gujarati
high school in Tamil
- உயர்நிலைப் பள்ளி, உயர்நிலைப்பள்ளி
high school in Urdu
- high school
- ہائی اسکول hāī iskūl
high school in Kannada
- ಮೇಲುಸಾಲೆ, ಮೇಗುಸಾಲೆ
high school in Gujarati
- high school
- હાઈસ્કૂલ hāīskūl
More languagesFewer languages
- high school in Tagalog
- hay-iskul, hayskul
- high school in Arabic
- مَدْرَسَة ثَانَوِيَّة madrasa ṯānawiyya
- high school in Malay
- sekolah tinggi, sekolah menengah
- high school in Indonesian
- sekolah menengah, sekolah menengah atas, sekolah menengah umum
- high school in Persian
- دبیرستان dabirestân, لیسه lise
- high school in Thai
- ไฮสกูล hai-sàgoon
- high school in Vietnamese
- trường trung học phổ thông
Forms of high school
| plural | high schools |
|---|---|
| alternative proscribed | highschool |
| alternative form | high-school |
| alternative form | HS |
Origin of high school
Inherited from Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”). Cognate with Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”). By surface analysis, high + school.
Words formed from high school
Questions about high school
- What does high school mean?
- High school means an institution which provides all or part of secondary education.
- What is high school in Tamil?
- High school in Tamil is உயர்நிலைப் பள்ளி, உயர்நிலைப்பள்ளி. See High school meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is high school?
- High school is a noun.
- How do you pronounce high school?
- High school is pronounced /ˈhaɪ.skul/ (US).
- What is the plural of high school?
- The plural of high school is high schools.
Words near high school in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: high school (page history and authors); high school (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ہائی اسکول (Urdu) (page history and authors); high school (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); હાઈસ્કૂલ (Gujarati) (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.
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