middle school

English

Noun

middle school (countable and uncountable, plural middle schools)

1. (education, countable) A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.
2. (education, uncountable) An educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.
   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:

     These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.

Synonyms

• intermediate school
• junior high school

 

Derived terms

• middle school student (translation hub)

Translations

school containing both primary and secondary students

• Armenian: միջնակարգ դպրոց (miǰnakarg dprocʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 初級中學／初级中学 (zh) (chūjí zhōngxué), 中學／中学 (zh) (zhōngxué)

• Dutch: middenschool (nl) f
• Finnish: keskikoulu (fi)
• French: ^{(please verify)} collège (fr) m, cycle (fr) m (Switzerland)
• German: Mittelstufe (de) f
• Greek: γυμνάσιο (el) n (gymnásio)
• Hausa: midìl f
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} alsó középiskola
• Icelandic: miðskóli m
• Indonesian: sekolah satu atap
• Irish: scoil mheánach f
• Italian: scuola media f
• Japanese: 中学校 (ja) (ちゅうがっこう, chūgakkō)
• Kazakh: орта мектеп (orta mektep)
• Khmer: សាលាមជ្ឈិម (sala machim)
• Korean: 중학교 (ko) (junghakgyo)
• Luxembourgish: Mëttelschoul f
• Macedonian: средно училиште n (sredno učilište)
• Portuguese: ensino médio (pt) m
• Romanian: școală medie (ro) f
• Russian: сре́дняя шко́ла (ru) f (srédnjaja škóla)
• Spanish: escuela media, secundaria (es) m
• Swedish: mellanstadie c
• Thai: มัธยมต้น (máttáyommá dtôn)
• Yiddish: מיטלשול f (mitlshul)

See also

• comprehensive
• grammar school
• junior school
• primary school
• secondary modern
• secondary school