Grammar School

Definition: Grammar School

Grammar School

Noun

1. A secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college.

2. A school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Grammar School

School

Day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory.

Crosswords: Grammar School

Books

• A Good School: Life at a Girls' Grammar School in the 1950s (reference)

• A history of Sir John Deane's Grammar School, Northwich, 1557-1908 (reference)

• Antidote for madness : what every grammar school student should know and understand but which very few of our best educated people either know or understand (reference)

• Classics or charity? the dilemma of the 18th century grammar school (reference)

• School for the community: a grammar school reorganises (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Abraham Lincoln statue, sculpted by Pietro Mezzara, located in front of a grammar school in San Francisco, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Doris MacDougal (right), a teacher in the third grade and principal of the McLain Grammar School in Rockland, Maine, talking with another teacher. Credit: Library of Congress.

The grammar school and guild chapel, Stratford. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grammar School, No. 56, New York City--Assembled for morning exercises. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vineyard St. Grammar School, June 1922. Credit: Library of Congress.

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My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the Grammar School, and a towardly child.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "grammar school": girls' grammar school ♦ modern grammar school. Additional references.

Albanian

shkollë e ciklit të lartë të fillorës. (various references)

Bulgarian 

средно училище (high school, secondary school), гимназия (high school), основно училище (grade school, primary school), прогимназия. (various references)

Czech

gymnázium (high school), základní škola (primary school). (various references)

Danish

gymnasium (high school). (various references)

Dutch

lagere school (primary school), basisschool (primary school). (various references)

Esperanto

malalta lernejo (primary school). (various references)

Finnish

lukio (senior high school, seventh and eighth forms of secondary school, sixth, sixth form, sixth form college). (various references)

French

lycée. (various references)

German

Gymnasium (college, gymnasium, high school), oberschule (high school, secondary school, upper school). (various references)

Greek 

σχολείο μέσησ εκπαίδευσησ. (various references)

Hungarian

gimnázium (comprehensive school, gymnasia, gymnasium, high school). (various references)

Italian

scuola superiore (comprehensive), liceo (high school, lyceum). (various references)

Manx

scoill grammar, ard-schoill (high school, secondary school). (various references)

Pig Latin

ammargray oolschay

Portuguese

escola prim�ria (grade school). (various references)

Romanian

liceu (gymnasium, high school, lycee, lyceum, public school, secondary school), colegiu (board, body, college), şcoalã secundarã (college, high school, secondary school). (various references)

Russian 

средняя школа (high school, middle school, secondary school). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osnovna škola (grade school, primary school). (various references)

Spanish

instituto de segunda enseñanza (comprehensive school), escuela primaria (common school, elementary school, grade school, primary school), escuela gramatical, escuela de gramática. (various references)

Swedish

gymnasieskola (senior high school, upper secondary school), grund skola, högre läroverk (grammar-school). (various references)

Turkish

ortaöğretim okulu, ilköğretim okulu. (various references)

Misspellings

"Grammar School" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grammer school. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: schoolmarm.

-4 letters: acrosomal, holograms, logomachs, scalogram.

-5 letters: camorras, chloasma, grammars, hologram, logomach.