grammar school

English

Etymology

From Middle English gramere scole.

Noun

grammar school (plural grammar schools)

1. (archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
2. (chiefly UK) 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.
   • 2022 October 5, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Reading to Southampton: Frome”, in RAIL, number 967, page 56:

     Bradshaw eulogises again about "considerable manufactures of woollen cloth", plus the "excellent grammar school, founded by Edward VI".

3. (US, rare, regional) Elementary school.

Related terms

• direct grant grammar school
• Latin grammar school
• secondary modern school
• comprehensive school

Translations

school that teaches the grammar system of Latin or Greek

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文法學校／文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: gymnasium (nl) n
• Finnish: klassinen lukio
• Irish: scoil ghramadaí f
• Italian: liceo classico m
• Middle English: gramere scole
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

secondary school that stresses academic education

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文法學校／文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào)

• Czech: gymnázium (cs) n
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: lukio (fi)
• German: Gymnasium (de) n
• Hungarian: gimnázium (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: gymnázium (sk)
• Turkish: lise (tr)

elementary school — see elementary school

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Translations to be checked

• Greek: λύκειο (el) n (lýkeio), δημοτικό σχολείο (el) n (dimotikó scholeío)
• Irish: scoil ghramadaí f
• Italian: liceo (it) m
• Romanian: liceu (ro) n, școală primară (ro) f, școală elementară f