grade school
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- noun
- /ɡreɪd skuːl/
- US
:
escuela primaria
- Many children make lifelong friends while attending grade school together.
- grade school children
- grade school students
- a grade school teacher
I had a brilliant friend as in grade school, his name was Marc Cohn.
- I had a brilliant friend as in grade school, his name was Marc Cohn.
- We, I don't see us teaching grade school children.
- This was like grade school, like elementary school level type training.
- And that continued throughout my entire time in grade school.
- And so being one of the boys, he had to go off during grade school and start working.
- He had to drop out of school very early, you know, in grade school so he could work to support his family.
- So where in grade school do you ask children to solve the same problem three ways?
- First of all, if you're not in grade school, there's a good chance that you don't know all of those answers.
- My dad was so competitive that I, my team lost the championship in softball in grade school.
- My favorite thing is that my grade school friends, I moved a couple times.
- It's really so juvenile in grade school and lacks emotional intelligence.
- I didn't have the instructors from grade school through high school.
- What is the likelihood that I played in grade school, junior high, high school and college?
Examples
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Only 14 percent of adults with a grade school education read literature in 2002.
Academic text (2004) -
Of all my listings, this property is by far the closest to the new grade school.
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I played football in grade school, junior high, high school and college.
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And does this go back to grade school, high school, all through the system?
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Like my guys from, you know, grade school, high school that I grew up with.
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I was just out of grade school when they did that.
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Jean met her future husband, Ray, in grade school, and married him at age 18.
Academic text (2002) -
"For the first three years of grade school, I thought my name was Tom Parker."
Fiction book (1992) -
In the Soviet Union, it was a standard practice for all kids in grade school to practice relaxation exercises.
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Don't you remember the cute Valentine's cards from grade school?
Synonyms
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A school for children between five and eleven that teaches reading, writing, and basic math
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A school for children aged five to eleven where they learn basic subjects
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A school for young children covering the first six or eight grades
How Early
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a school for young children' is directly and compositionally derived from 'grade' (a year-group of students) + 'school' (an educational institution): it denotes a school organized by grades. This noun–noun compound follows a transparent, cross-linguistic compositional pattern (despite being more common in American English), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Grade school comes from grade, meaning a school year or level, and school, the place to learn. So a grade school is the school for the first 'grades', the early years for 'young children', which is why it means a school for young children.