grammar school
Noun
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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 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.
- (US, rare, regional) Elementary school.
- Italian: liceo classico
- German: Gymnasium
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