grammar school

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Etymology

From Middle English gramere scole.

Noun

grammar school (countable and uncountable, plural grammar schools)

(archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
Hyponym: Latin grammar school
(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.
Synonym: (informal) grammar
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 382, about Thornton Dale:
  The largest building at one end, now used as a church hall, was originally the village's one-roomed grammar school, also endowed by the Lumleys.
- 2008 July 12, John Mullan, “Where are they now?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2013:
  It is a world where grammar school is the only way up, but at the cost of subjugation to educational tyranny and eventual estrangement from the family that was once so "proud" of your achievements.
- 2022 October 5, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Reading to Southampton: Frome”, in RAIL, number 967, page 56:
  Bradshaw eulogises again about "considerable manufactures of woollen cloth", plus the "excellent grammar school, founded by Edward VI".
(US, rare, regional) Elementary school.

Derived terms

direct grant grammar school

Related terms

Latin grammar school

Translations

school that teaches the grammar system of Latin or Greek

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 文法學校 / 文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: gymnasium (nl) n
Finnish: klassinen lukio
Irish: scoil ghramadaí f
Italian: liceo classico m
Middle English: gramere scole
Polish: szkoła gramatyki f
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

secondary school that stresses academic education

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 文法學校 / 文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào)
Czech: gymnázium (cs) n
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: lukio (fi)
German: Gymnasium (de) n
Hungarian: gimnázium (hu)
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: liceum ogólnokształcące n
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: gymnázium (sk)
Turkish: lise (tr)

elementary school — see elementary school

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