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secondary education

secondary education noun: education that follows primary education and leads to either employment or college / university education.

Noun

secondary education (uncountable)

  1. Education that follows primary education and leads to either employment or college / university education.

secondary education meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Thai

secondary education in Tamil

இடை நிலைக் கல்வி, இடைநிலைக் கல்வி, நடுநிலைக் கல்வி

secondary education in Malayalam

education of children that follows primary education and leads to either employment or further education
ദ്വിതീയ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം dvitīya vidyābhyāsaṁ

secondary education in Kannada

ಹಿಂಕಲಿಕೆ, ಹಿಂಕಲಿವು, ಪ್ರೌಢ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ

secondary education in Thai

education of children that follows primary education and leads to either employment or further education
มัธยมศึกษา mát-tá-yom-sʉ̀k-sǎa
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secondary education in Vietnamese
trung học

Origin of secondary education

From secondary + education.

Questions about secondary education

What does secondary education mean?
Secondary education means education that follows primary education and leads to either employment or college / university education.
What is secondary education in Tamil?
Secondary education in Tamil is இடை நிலைக் கல்வி, இடைநிலைக் கல்வி, நடுநிலைக் கல்வி. See Secondary education meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is secondary education?
Secondary education is a noun.

Words near secondary education in the dictionary

  1. secondary diagonal
  2. secondary diagonals
  3. secondary dominant
  4. secondary drowning
  5. secondary drownings
  6. secondary education
  7. secondary emission
  8. secondary emissions
  9. secondary energies
  10. secondary energy
  11. secondary explosive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secondary education (page history and authors); secondary education (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); secondary education (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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