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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elementary school mean?
• ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (noun)
The noun ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 1 sense:
1. a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades
Familiarity information: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
elementary school; grade school; grammar school; primary school
Hypernyms ("elementary school" is a kind of...):
school (an educational institution)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elementary school"):
junior school (British school for children aged 7-11)
infant school (British school for children aged 5-7)
Context examples
Elementary school students sang, Elder Nelson White provided a prayer, and the buffalo were released from a livestock trailer into a into a 48-acre space set aside for them in Kinnear.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
But to win the battles, the player needs to apply math skills of elementary school.
(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)
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