Adjacent Words

middle school definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12 [syn: secondary school, lyceum, lycee, Gymnasium, middle school]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1945 a school usually including grades five to eight or six to eight • middle schooler noun

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(middle schools) 1. In the United States, a middle school is a school for children in the fifth to eighth grades, between the ages of 10 and 13 or 14. ...Harlem Park Middle School... N-VAR: oft in names after n 2. In Britain, a middle school is a state school that children go to between the ages of 8 or 9 and 12 or 13. N-VAR: oft in names after n

Moby Thesaurus

Gymnasium, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, academy, grammar school, high, high school, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, prep school, preparatory school, public school, secondary school, seminary, senior high, senior high school