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primary schools

primary schools is the plural of primary school.

Meaning of primary school

Noun

primary school (countable and uncountable, plural primary schools)

  1. (Australia, India, New Zealand, Philippines, UK, sometimes) A formal, obligatory kind of school that typically begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.
    • The child's mother was tearful as he boarded the bus for his first day of primary school.

Questions about primary schools

What is primary schools the plural of?
Primary schools is the plural of primary school.

Words near primary schools in the dictionary

  1. primary reinforcements
  2. primary research
  3. primary residence
  4. primary residences
  5. primary school
  6. primary schools
  7. primary sector
  8. primary sectors
  9. primary source
  10. primary sources
  11. primary storage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: primary schools (page history and authors); primary 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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