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Grammar School

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Noun

1. grammar school

a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college

2. elementary school, grade school, grammar school, primary school

a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Grammar School

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noun
1. British
(esp formerly) a state-maintained secondary school providing an education with an academic bias for children who are selected by the eleven-plus examination, teachers' reports, or other means
Compare secondary modern school, comprehensive school
2. US another term for elementary school
3. Australian
a private school, esp one controlled by a church
4. New Zealand
a secondary school forming part of the public education system

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Grammar School

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1.  US, Rare
an elementary school
the term was variously applied to different school levels, esp. to that between the fifth and eighth grades
2. 
in England
a.  Obsolete
a school where Latin was taught
b. 
a government-supported secondary school preparing pupils for college

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Grammar School

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n.
1. See elementary school.
2. Chiefly British A secondary or preparatory school.
3. A school stressing the study of classical languages.

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