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HIGH SCHOOL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
Example:
he goes to the neighborhood highschool
Synonyms:
high; high school; highschool; senior high; senior high school
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("high school" is a kind of...):
Gymnasium; lycee; lyceum; middle school; secondary school (a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12)
Context examples:
Children were more likely to be in the 10th, or highest, percentile if their parents had only a high school diploma or equivalent (more than twice as likely) or were children of first-time mothers (almost twice as likely).
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
You should go to high school.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You may know my story, that I had to teach myself through high school, as those were the years of all my surgeries in the hospital to overcome a life-threatening, internal-bleeding birth defect.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Later on he went to night high school.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You have never attended high school?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Yes; but I mean high school, and lectures, and the university.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You know far more than any of the students entering high school, and yet you can't pass the examinations.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And when she pointed out the opportuneness of the time, that the entrance examinations to high school began on the following Monday, he promptly volunteered that he would take them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Because, without writing there wouldn't be any high school.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You should go back and finish grammar school, and then go through to high school and university.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
