Definition of Grade school

1. Noun. A school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades.

Exact synonyms: Elementary School, Grammar School, Primary School
Generic synonyms: School
Specialized synonyms: Junior School, Infant School

Definition of Grade school

1. Noun. (schools US) An elementary school or primary school. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grade School

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grade-constructed
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grade II astrocytoma
grade IV astrocytoma
grade I astrocytoma
grade crossing
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grade inflation
grade insignia
grade on a curve
grade point
grade point average
grade school (current term)
grade schools
grade separation
graded
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gradelier
gradeliest
gradely
grader
graders
grades
gradewide
gradgrind
gradgrinds
gradian

Literary usage of Grade school

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"All whose general education is to be continued to the age of eighteen or nineteen find their natural place in the First grade school. About this there are, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"As has been said elsewhere in this article, development is along the line of additional groups of grade school, high school and technical school teachers, ..."

3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1906)
"The boy in the third grade school may work at French and the elements of Latin till he is fourteen ; but the boy in the second grade, if he is to learn ..."

4. Report of the Commissioners by Royal Commission on Secondary Education, Great Britain (1895)
"You see the higher grade school itself has u preparatory department. 9970. ... Then your higher grade school is a socially higher grade school ? ..."

5. The Measurement of Intelligence: An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for by Lewis Madison Terman (1916)
"CU Girl, age 10; mental age 7-8; second grade; school work "average"; teacher's estimate of intelligence "average." Teacher blames adenoids and bad teeth ..."

6. School Architecture: A General Treatise for the Use of Architects and Others by Edmund March Wheelwright (1901)
"... ROAD HIGHER grade school, LONDON. many traveling to town by train. In the higher grade schools, also, are given evening courses of instruction, ..."

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