junior high school
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈdʒuːniər haɪ skuːl/
- US
:
escuela intermedia (EE. UU.)
- I was in junior high school.
- junior high school students
- junior high school teachers
- junior high school graduation
The greatest destroyer of scientists known to science is junior high school.
- The greatest destroyer of scientists known to science is junior high school.
- You know what happened when I was in junior high school, I went to school one day, I got caught playing hooky.
- And we did that when we were in junior high school.
- And it was, you know, middle of junior high school.
- And so in the book, there's a time where these guys bully me every single day, where I went to junior high school, so.
- I think like junior high school already people were saying that about me, and I can see that.
- Yes, wood shop totally there is junior high school shop class was my first experience with the drill press.
- It's like my, I guess my junior high school, you know, close friend of my time at that time helped me to sort of write this thing.
Examples
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Mike lives in North Branford, Connecticut, and is a junior high school teacher.
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Almost all students attend public schools through the end of junior high school.
Academic text (2012) -
Somewhere in junior high school, we were doing career day.
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No high school, no junior high school, no college.
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And I hear this from junior high school boys also.
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We went to junior high school together.
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As it turned out, there was only one junior high school in town anyway.
Fiction book (1999) -
By the time students have reached junior high school, they are active participants in the economy.
Academic text (1994) -
All students came from a suburban junior high school in a large district near a metropolitan center.
Academic text (1992) -
I remember when I graduated from junior high school and felt excited about starting high school.
Synonyms
131
2.0
A school for students around 12 to 14 years old before high school
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1.4
A school for children between elementary and high school, usually grades 6 to 8
Antonyms
2
1.8
A school for teenagers who study grades nine to twelve after middle school
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a school for students in the early years of secondary education' is directly compositional from 'junior' (younger/lesser) + 'high school' (secondary school), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the sense. This compound pattern is cross‑linguistically common (lower/upper divisions of secondary school), though exact grade ranges vary regionally.
Etymology
Junior high school comes from the idea of a smaller, 'junior' version of high school where younger teens go after elementary school. So today it means a school for the early years of secondary education.