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middle school en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • mĭdl sko͞ol
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Meanings

  1. (countable) A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.
  2. (uncountable) An educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.
    • 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. 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
middle schools Number=Plur lexicographic
middleschool alternative lexicographic
middle-school alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

middle schooler

Relateds

primary school · secondary modern · junior school · grammar school · comprehensive · secondary school

Synonyms

intermediate school · junior high school

Translations (28)

id sekolah satu atap (school containing both primary and secondary students) · km សាលាមជ្ឈិម (school containing both primary and secondary students) · cmn 中學 /中学 (school containing both primary and secondary students) · bg прогимназия (school containing both primary and secondary students) · de Mittelstufe (school containing both primary and secondary students) · it scuola media (school containing both primary and secondary students) · ru сре́дняя шко́ла (school containing both primary and secondary students) · cmn 初級中學 /初级中学 (school containing both primary and secondary students) · pl gimnazjum (school containing both primary and secondary students) · ja 中学校 (school containing both primary and secondary students) · lb Mëttelschoul (school containing both primary and secondary students) · mk средно училиште (school containing both primary and secondary students) · kk орта мектеп (school containing both primary and secondary students) · ko 중학교 (school containing both primary and secondary students) · yi מיטלשול (school containing both primary and secondary students) · es escuela media (school containing both primary and secondary students) · is miðskóli (school containing both primary and secondary students) · ro școală medie (school containing both primary and secondary students) · el γυμνάσιο (school containing both primary and secondary students) · fr cycle (school containing both primary and secondary students) · th มัธยมต้น (school containing both primary and secondary students) · ha midìl (school containing both primary and secondary students) · sv mellanstadie (school containing both primary and secondary students) · ga scoil mheánach (school containing both primary and secondary students) · alt орто школ (school containing both primary and secondary students) · nl middenschool (school containing both primary and secondary students) · hy միջնակարգ դպրոց (school containing both primary and secondary students) · fi keskikoulu (school containing both primary and secondary students)