precollegiate
- adjective
- /ˌpriːkəˈlɛdʒiɪt/
- US
- The precollegiate curriculum must prepare students for the rigors of university-level coursework.
- precollegiate education
- precollegiate anthropology
- precollegiate classroom
Examples
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Students in precollegiate programs often participate in extracurricular activities to enhance their college applications.
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Eighteen states have launched precollegiate programs to support high school students interested in becoming teachers (SCTQ, 2003).
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Applying socially critical analysis is more difficult in precollegiate settings.
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Historically in Europe, precollegiate music education occurred through private lessons for the privileged few.
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Since the era of the "new social studies," precollegiate anthropology has continued to grow stronger in the social studies curriculum.
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Precollegiate private schools affiliated with colleges and universities have a long and distinguished history in the United States.
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Educators have found greater support and enthusiasm for their efforts to incorporate archaeology into precollegiate strategies.
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Perhaps the reason for ignoring precollegiate education is the widespread impression that civics courses are of little value.
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A major portion of the book is "Teaching about Cultural Diversity," demonstrating the unique strength that anthropology offers to the precollegiate curricula.
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Academic accessibility refers to the precollegiate academic preparation of a student (Heller, 2001).
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
Happening before starting college to help students get ready
Surface Forms
Morphology
precollegiate = collegiate (semi-transparent) = pre + college + iate
Given knowledge of 'collegiate', adding 'pre-' clearly yields the meaning 'before college' or 'before entering college'.
Etymology
Precollegiate begins with pre- meaning 'before', as in preschool, and uses collegiate from college, so precollegiate describes the time or programs that happen before someone goes to college.