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Intermediate Certificate en · NOUN

Etymology

intermediate + certificate

Meanings

1. (Ireland, historical) A certificate awarded to Irish students who passed the state examinations at the end of the third or fourth year of a voluntary secondary school or boarding school.
2. (Australia, historical) A certificate awarded to students who successfully completed three years of high school.
   • ‘I’m gonna get a job as soon as I get my Intermediate Certificate at High School.’ 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 57:

Forms

Relateds

Junior Certificate · Leaving Certificate

Synonyms

Inter Cert

Translations (1)

ga Teastas Idirmheánach (certificate awarded to Irish students who passed the state examinations at the end of the third or fourth year of a voluntary secondary school or boarding school before 1992)