junior high
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈdʒuːniər haɪ/
- US
:
escuela intermedia (EE. UU.)
- Teaching interdisciplinary lessons to my junior high students was one of the most rewarding experiences.
- a junior high school
- junior high students
- junior high teachers
We were in junior high and I was in Kansas.
- We were in junior high and I was in Kansas.
- What is the likelihood that I played in grade school, junior high, high school and college?
- So what is what's Moby like in junior high?
- By the time I got to junior high, I really was doing badly in school.
- I became first chair flautist all throughout junior high and high school.
- And we had a English class together in junior high, I think is where it first started.
- I was, I ran in junior high.
- Now, my friends, my delinquent friends in junior high and high school, a lot of them became Alcoholics.
- And my friend that I had known since junior high and high school, she got me the job there.
- She spent a lot of time teaching middle school and, you know, junior high.
- Like I got a friend who's who's a psychologist like a counselor at a junior high out here in Southern California.
Examples
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Dan is going to pick up his son after junior high basketball practice.
Academic text (1991) -
By the time I got to junior high, I really was doing badly in school.
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And I, I have this real clear memory of being in junior high and having this happen.
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Oh my God, it just brings me back to like my junior high days.
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And we had a English class together in junior high, I think is where it first started.
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And my friend that I had known since junior high and high school, she got me the job there.
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Parties were not like this when we were in junior high.
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I think that the girl sitting behind you is someone I went to junior high school with.
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But now she was in the junior high wing, where everybody knew her name.
Fiction book (1990) -
My sister has many fond memories of her time in junior high, especially during her art classes.
Synonyms
103
1.4
A school for children between elementary and high school, usually grades 6 to 8
28
1.8
A school for students aged about 12 to 15 after elementary school
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is largely compositional: 'junior' indicates younger and 'high' here functions as shorthand for 'high school', so together they denote a school for younger secondary students. However, the use of 'high' in this institutional sense and cross‑national variation in schooling (middle school vs junior high, different grade ranges) mean the exact sense and grade span may not be fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Junior high joins junior, meaning 'younger', and high, from 'high school'. It shows a school for younger students just before high school, usually grades seven and eight.