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schooldays

schooldays is the plural of schoolday.

Meaning of schoolday

Noun

schoolday (plural schooldays)

  1. A day during which the public schools are open, usually synonymous with weekday during the school year.
    • In modern China, Sunday is not usually a schoolday except around major holidays.
  2. The part of a day when students attend school.
    • I couldn't contact my child during the schoolday because of the school's no-cellphone policy.

Noun

schooldays (uncountable)

  1. The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.
    • I can hardly remember my schooldays now that I have reached middle age.
    • Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft
      I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight
      The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch
      To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both,
      I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of schooldays

alternative formschool days

Questions about schooldays

What does schooldays mean?
Schooldays means the period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.
What is schooldays the plural of?
Schooldays is the plural of schoolday.
What part of speech is schooldays?
Schooldays is a noun.

Words near schooldays in the dictionary

  1. Schoolcraft County
  2. Schoolcrafts
  3. schooldame
  4. schooldames
  5. schoolday
  6. schooldays
  7. schooldesk
  8. schooldesks
  9. schooldom
  10. schoole
  11. schooled

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