schoolage
schoolage noun: a fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher. Also the alternative form of school age.
Noun
schoolage
- A fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher.
- Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068
Also used as
schoolage is also the alternative form of school age.
Forms of schoolage
| plural | schoolages |
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Origin of schoolage
From school + -age.
Questions about schoolage
- What does schoolage mean?
- Schoolage means a fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher.
- What part of speech is schoolage?
- Schoolage is a noun.
- What is the plural of schoolage?
- The plural of schoolage is schoolages.
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