grammar school

English

Etymology

From Middle English gramer scole.

Noun

grammar school (plural grammar schools)

1. (archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
2. (chiefly UK) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.
3. (US, rare, regional) Elementary school.

Related terms

• secondary modern school
• comprehensive school

Translations

school that teaches the grammar system of Latin or Greek

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文法學校／文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào), 文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: gymnasium (nl) n
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• Finnish: klassinen lukio
• Irish: scoil ghramadaí f
• Italian: liceo classico m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

secondary school that stresses academic education

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文法學校／文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào), 文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào)

• Czech: gymnázium (cs) n
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: lukio (fi)
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• German: Gymnasium (de) n
• Hungarian: gimnázium (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: gymnázium (sk)
• Turkish: lise (tr)

elementary school — see elementary school

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Translations to be checked

• Greek: λύκειο (el) n (lýkeio), δημοτικό σχολείο (el) n (dimotikó scholeío)
• Irish: scoil ghramadaí f
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• Italian: liceo (it) m
• Romanian: liceu (ro) n, școală primară (ro) f, școală elementară f