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grammar_school

grammar school

English

Noun

grammar school ‎(plural grammar schools)

(archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
(chiefly Britain) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.
(US, rare, regional) Elementary school.

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Translations

school that teaches the grammar system of Latin or Greek

Finnish: klassinen lukio

Italian: liceo classico m

UK secondary school or equivalent in another country

Czech: gymnázium (cs) n
Finnish: oppikoulu (fi), peruskoulun yläaste, lukio (fi)
German: Gymnasium (de) n
Greek: λύκειο (el) n ‎(lýkeio)

Hungarian: gimnázium (hu)
Irish: scoil ghramadaí f
Italian: liceo (it) m
Romanian: liceu (ro) n

US elementary school or equivalent in another country

Finnish: peruskoulu (fi), kansakoulu (fi), alkeiskoulu
Greek: δημοτικό σχολείο (el) n ‎(dimotikó scholeío)

Hungarian: általános iskola (hu)
Romanian: școală primară (ro) f, școală elementară f