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schooldays en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.
    • Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both, I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […] c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 164:
    • I can hardly remember my schooldays now that I have reached middle age.
  2. (form-of, plural) plural of schoolday
    form of schoolday

Forms

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Translations (3)

de Schulzeit (period of one's life when one attends school) · pl szkolne dni (period of one's life when one attends school) · fi kouluaika (period of one's life when one attends school)