high school

English

Alternative forms

• highschool

Etymology

From Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”), equivalent to high +‎ school. Cognate with Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.skul/, [ˈhɐɪsku̟ɫ]

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• (Canada, idle-idol split) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɪskul/

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Noun

high school (countable and uncountable, plural high schools)

1. (education) An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.
2. (Canada, US, Australia, Scotland) Secondary school.

Derived terms

• high school student (translation hub)
• junior high school
• senior high school

Translations

secondary school — see also secondary school

• Afrikaans: hoërskool (af)
• Arabic: مَدْرَسَة ثَانَوِيَّة f (madrasa ṯānawiyya) (secondary)

  Hijazi Arabic: ثانوي m (ṯānawi, sānawi)

• Armenian: միջնակարգ դպրոց (miǰnakarg dprocʿ)
• Azerbaijani: ali məktəb, lise (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (in the East) 高級中學／高级中学 (zh) (gāojí zhōngxué), (in the West) 中學／中学 (zh) (zhōngxué) (secondary)

• Czech: střední škola (cs) f (secondary)
• Danish: gymnasium (da) (ca.)
• Dutch: middelbare school (nl)
• Esperanto: gimnazio, mezlernejo, liceo (eo)
• Estonian: keskkool, gümnaasium
• Finnish: lukio (fi)
• French: école secondaire f (secondary), lycée (fr) m, collège (fr) m (Switzerland)
• Georgian: უმაღლესი სკოლა (umaɣlesi sḳola)
• German: Oberschule (de) f, Mittelschule (de) f (secondary)
• Greek: γυμνάσιο (el) n (gymnásio), λύκειο (el) n (lýkeio)
• Hungarian: középiskola (hu), gimnázium (hu)
• Icelandic: menntaskóli (is)
• Ido: gimnazio (io)
• Indonesian: sekolah menengah (id), sekolah menengah atas (id), sekolah menengah umum (id)
• Irish: ardscoil f
• Italian: liceo (it) m, ginnasio (it) m, liceo scientifico, liceo classico
• Japanese: 高校 (ja) (こうこう, kōkō), 高等学校 (ja) (こうとうがっこう, kōtō gakkō)
• Khmer: សាលាជាន់ខ្ពស់ (sala juan khpous), វិទ្យាល័យ (vi tyea lai)
• Korean: 고등학교(高等學校) (ko) (godeunghakgyo)
• Ladino: kolej, lise
• Lithuanian: gimnazija f
• Macedonian: средно училиште n (sredno učilište), гимназија f (gimnazija)
• Malay: sekolah tinggi (ms), sekolah menengah (ms)
• Norwegian: videregående skole
• Persian: دبیرستان (fa) (dabirestân), لیسه (fa) (lise) (Dari)
• Plautdietsch: Huachschool f
• Polish: szkoła średnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: secundário (pt) m, secundária (pt) f, liceu m
• Romanian: liceu (ro) n, școală secundară f, gimnaziu (ro) n, școală medie (ro) f
• Russian: сре́дняя шко́ла (ru) f (srédnjaja škóla) (secondary)
• Scottish Gaelic: àrd-sgoil f
• Serbo-Croatian: gimnazija (sh) f, srednja škola f, средња школа f
• Slovak: stredná škola
• Spanish: secundaria (es) f (secondary), preparatoria (es) f, bachillerato (es) m
• Swedish: high school c, gymnasie (sv) c, gymnasieskola (sv) n
• Tajik: мактаби миёна (maktabi miyona)
• Thai: ไฮสกูล (hai-sàgoon)
• Turkish: lise (tr)
• Vietnamese: trường trung học phổ thông
• Yiddish: מיטלשול f (mitlshul) (secondary), גימנאַזיע f (gimnazye), הײַסקול m (hayskul) (US)

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English high school. First attested in 1963.

Noun

high school c

1. A high school, a North American or Australian secondary school.
   • 1946, Ebba Lindqvist, Vägen till Jeriko‎^[1], page 183:

     Jag gick till lärarinnan och frågade henne, om Lee kunde fortsätta i high school, vet frun, men "nej", sa lärarinnan, "det lönar sig inte, hur duktig hon än är, så kan hon inget bli, när hon är färgad".

     I went to the teacher and asked her, if Lee could continue in high school, you know, but "no", said the teacher, "it's not worth it, no matter how good she is, she cannot be anything when she's colored".

   • 1950, Astrid Lindgren, Kati i Amerika‎^[2], page 106:

     Så därför var mr Whitney så glad, att Bob hade fått sina gedigna kunskaper i affärsteknik vid ett ansett college, och Pamela och Fred, som ännu bara gick i high school, skulle också till college, om han så skulle arbeta sig igenom varenda begagnad bil i hela U.S.A. för att få råd med det.

     So that is why Mr. Whitney was so happy that Bob had gotten his solid business skills at a reputable college, and Pamela and Fred, still only in high school, were going to college too even if he would have to work his way through every used car throughout the U.S. to afford it.

   • 2016 July 4, “Gloria Ray Karlmark”, in Sommar‎^[3], via Sveriges Radio:

     Själv tog hon som 14-åring strid mot rasismen som segregerade svarta amerikaner från vita, när hon och åtta andra afroamerikanska ungdomar sökte sig till en vit high school i staden Little Rock i Arkansas.

     As a 14-year-old, she herself fought against the racism that segregated black Americans from whites, when she and eight other African-American youth applied to a white high school in the city of Little Rock in Arkansas.

   • 2022 June 1, Fredrik Eriksson, “Nya The Sims 4-expansionen tar oss till gymnasiet – mitt i sommaren!? [The new Sims 4 expansion takes us to high school – in the middle of summer!?"]”, in FZ:

     High School-åren släpps i sin tur 28 juli till pc och konsolerna, och du har förmodligen redan räknat ut att expansionen fokuserar på high school, USA:s motsvarighet till gymnasiet.

     High School Years will be released on July 28th for PC and consoles, and you've probably already figured out that the expansion focuses on high school, the equivalent of gymnasium in the USA.

See also

• gymnasium (“high school; secondary school”)
• högskola (“college”, literally “high school”)