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middleschool

middleschool 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 middleschool

pluralmiddleschools

Questions about middleschool

What is middleschool the alternative form of?
Middleschool is the alternative form of middle school.

Words near middleschool in the dictionary

  1. Middlesbro
  2. Middlesbrough
  3. middlescence
  4. middlescent
  5. middlescents
  6. middleschool
  7. middleschooler
  8. Middlesex
  9. Middlesex Centre
  10. Middlesex County
  11. Middlesex gallows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: middleschool (page history and authors); middle 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.

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