schoolies week
schoolies week noun: a festival during which finishing high school students celebrate the end of their studies, and the newfound freedom that follows.
Noun (1)
schoolies week (plural schoolies weeks)
- A festival during which finishing high school students celebrate the end of their studies, and the newfound freedom that follows.
- Under official management schoolies week emerges almost as another kind of Gold Coast theme park; a place to go ‘wild’ safely.1999, Colin Symes, Daphne Meadmore, The Extra-Ordinary School: Parergonality & Pedagogy, page 203
- Traditionally there are separate Schoolies Weeks for Queensland and New South Wales/Victorian Year 12s on the Gold Coast, so that at each one, students party with their peers.2008, Simon Hudson, Tourism and Hospitality Marketing: A Global Perspective, page 70
Noun (2) capitalized: Schoolies Week
Schoolies Week
- Alternative letter-case form of schoolies week
Examples of schoolies week in a sentence
- Blurred focuses on characters travelling to the annual end of secondary school rite of passage in Australia, Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast, in this local variant of the teen pic.2011, Ben Goldsmith, Tom O'Regan, Susan Ward, Local Hollywood: Global Film Production and the Gold Coast, page 200:
- In other words, it′s the approach of that great Australian contribution to Western civilisation: schoolies week.2012, Peter Ruehl, Men Are Stupid, Women Are Crazy, page 91:
Forms of schoolies week
| plural | schoolies weeks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | schoolies' week |
| alternative form | Schoolies Week |
Origin of schoolies week
From schoolie + week. The festival originated from informal parties held at beach houses on the Gold Coast in Queensland, around 1975-78.
Questions about schoolies week
- What does schoolies week mean?
- Schoolies week means a festival during which finishing high school students celebrate the end of their studies, and the newfound freedom that follows.
- How do you use schoolies week in a sentence?
- Blurred focuses on characters travelling to the annual end of secondary school rite of passage in Australia, Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast, in this local variant of the teen pic.
- What part of speech is schoolies week?
- Schoolies week is a noun.
- What is the plural of schoolies week?
- The plural of schoolies week is schoolies weeks.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: schoolies week (page history and authors); Schoolies Week (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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