SCHOOLTIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schooltime mean? 

• SCHOOLTIME (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLTIME has 2 senses:

1. the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

2. the time of life when you are going to school

  Familiarity information: SCHOOLTIME used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOLTIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

school; school day; schooltime

Context example:

when the school day was done we would walk home together

Hypernyms ("schooltime" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "schooltime"):

study hall (a period of time during the school day that is set aside for study)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The time of life when you are going to school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

schooldays; schooltime

Hypernyms ("schooltime" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

 Context examples 

It's nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper dolls, or something else, at recess.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)