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school zone

school zone noun: streets near or surrounding a school that have reduced speed limits during certain hours of the day for the protection of young pedestrians and cyclists.

Noun

school zone (plural school zones)

  1. Streets near or surrounding a school that have reduced speed limits during certain hours of the day for the protection of young pedestrians and cyclists.
    • Holonym: school district
    • Meronym: schoolground
  2. A designated geographic area that determines which school children will attend based on their home address.
    • Near-synonym: school district
    Synonyms:
    school district

school zone meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Indonesian

school zone in Hindi

area around school with reduced speed limits
विद्यालय क्षेत्र vidyālay kṣetra

school zone in Tamil

area around school with reduced speed limits
பள்ளி வளாகம் paḷḷi vaḷākam

school zone in Indonesian

area around school with reduced speed limits
zona selamat sekolah

Examples of school zone in a sentence

  • The fines are doubled if you speed in a school zone or a work zone.
  • Driving 45 in a school zone is not the same thing as vehicular homicide.2019, Dennis Prager, Mark Joseph, No Safe Spaces:

Synonyms of school zone

Forms of school zone

pluralschool zones

Questions about school zone

What does school zone mean?
School zone means streets near or surrounding a school that have reduced speed limits during certain hours of the day for the protection of young pedestrians and cyclists.
What is school zone in Hindi?
School zone in Hindi is विद्यालय क्षेत्र (vidyālay kṣetra). See School zone meaning in Hindi.
How do you use school zone in a sentence?
The fines are doubled if you speed in a school zone or a work zone.
What part of speech is school zone?
School zone is a noun.
What is the plural of school zone?
The plural of school zone is school zones.

Words near school zone in the dictionary

  1. school uniforms
  2. school voucher
  3. school vouchers
  4. school year
  5. school years
  6. school zone
  7. school zones
  8. school-age
  9. school-aged
  10. school-ages
  11. school-butter

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