middle school

middle school

English

Noun

middle school (countable and uncountable, plural middle schools)

1. (education, countable) A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.
2. (education, uncountable) An educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.
   • 2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004, page 107:

     These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.

Synonyms

• intermediate school
• junior high school

 

Translations

school containing both primary and secondary students

Armenian: միջնակարգ դպրոց (miǰnakarg dprocʿ) Chinese: Mandarin: 初級中學／初级中学 (zh) (chūjí zhōngxué), 中學／中学 (zh) (zhōngxué) Dutch: middenschool (nl) f Finnish: keskikoulu (fi) French: (please verify) collège (fr) m, cycle (fr) m (Switzerland) German: Mittelstufe (de) f Greek: γυμνάσιο (el) n (gymnásio) Hausa: midìl f Hungarian: (please verify) alsó középiskola Icelandic: miðskóli m Indonesian: sekolah satu atap Irish: scoil mheánach f Italian: scuola media f Japanese: 中学校 (ja) (ちゅうがっこう, chūgakkō) Kazakh: орта мектеп (orta mektep) Khmer: សាលាមជ្ឈិម (sala machim) Korean: 중학교 (ko) (junghakgyo) Luxembourgish: Mëttelschoul f Macedonian: средно училиште n (sredno učilište) Portuguese: ensino médio (pt) m Romanian: școală medie (ro) f Russian: сре́дняя шко́ла (ru) f (srédnjaja škóla) Spanish: escuela media, secundaria (es) m Swedish: mellanstadie c Thai: มัธยมต้น (máttáyommá dtôn) Yiddish: מיטלשול‎ f (mitlshul)

See also

• comprehensive
• grammar school
• junior school
• primary school
• secondary modern
• secondary school