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middle-school

middle-school is the alternative form of middle school.

Meaning of middle school

Noun

middle school (countable and uncountable, plural middle schools)

  1. (countable) A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.
  2. (uncountable) An educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.
    • These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...

Forms of middle-school

pluralmiddle-schools

Questions about middle-school

What is middle-school the alternative form of?
Middle-school is the alternative form of middle school.

Words near middle-school in the dictionary

  1. middle-of-the-roadness
  2. middle-range
  3. middle-road
  4. middle-roader
  5. middle-roaders
  6. middle-school
  7. middle-schooler
  8. middle-sized
  9. middleage
  10. middleaged
  11. middleagism

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