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secondary moderns

secondary moderns is the plural of secondary modern.

Meaning of secondary modern

Noun

secondary modern (plural secondary moderns)

  1. (UK) In the UK, from 1944 to the 1970s, a secondary school for children who had failed the eleven plus examination.

Questions about secondary moderns

What is secondary moderns the plural of?
Secondary moderns is the plural of secondary modern.

Words near secondary moderns in the dictionary

  1. secondary metabolite
  2. secondary metabolites
  3. secondary modern
  4. secondary modern school
  5. secondary modern schools
  6. secondary moderns
  7. secondary phosphine
  8. secondary phosphines
  9. secondary planet
  10. secondary planets
  11. secondary port

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secondary moderns (page history and authors); secondary modern (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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