secondary school
secondary school noun: a state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.
Noun
secondary school (countable and uncountable, plural secondary schools)
- A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.
- One of the key roles played by the Whitby line is the transport of children from rural spots along the branch to secondary school in the coastal town.2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77
- The federally designated, graduation-separated classification of grades 9–12 (approximately ages 14–18), regardless of whether they are compiled together in one school or separate from the other grades.
- Middle school; junior high school; a school that one attends between the ages of 12-17 (equivalent of grades 7-10 in North America, and years 7-10 in Australia).
secondary school meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Gujarati
secondary school in Tamil
- உயர்நிலைப்பள்ளி
secondary school in Urdu
- secondary school
- ثانوی اسکول sānavī iskūl
secondary school in Kannada
- ಪ್ರೌಢಶಾಲೆ
secondary school in Gujarati
- secondary school
- માધ્યમિક શાળા mādhyamik śāḷā
More languagesFewer languages
- secondary school in Tagalog
- mataas na paaralan, paaralang sekundaryo, sekundarya
- secondary school in Arabic
- مَدْرَسَة ثَانَوِيَّة, ثَانَوِيَّة ṯānawiyya
- secondary school in Malay
- sekolah menengah
- secondary school in Indonesian
- sekolah menengah, sekolah lanjutan
- secondary school in Persian
- دبیرستان dabirestân
- secondary school in Vietnamese
- trường trung học
Synonyms of secondary school
Forms of secondary school
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Questions about secondary school
- What does secondary school mean?
- Secondary school means a state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.
- What is secondary school in Tamil?
- Secondary school in Tamil is உயர்நிலைப்பள்ளி. See Secondary school meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is secondary school?
- Secondary school is a noun.
- What is the plural of secondary school?
- The plural of secondary school is secondary schools.
Words near secondary school in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: secondary school (page history and authors); secondary school (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ثانوی اسکول (Urdu) (page history and authors); secondary school (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); માધ્યમિક શાળા (Gujarati) (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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