"comprehensive school" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: comprehensive schools [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} comprehensive school (plural comprehensive schools)
  1. (British) a normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools Wikipedia link: comprehensive school Tags: British Categories (topical): Schools Synonyms: comp Translations (normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities): enhedsskole [common-gender] (Danish), middenschool (Dutch), yhtenäiskoulu (Finnish), école moyenne [feminine] (French), Gesamtschule [feminine] (German), scoil chuimsitheach [feminine] (Irish), liceo scientifico [masculine] (Italian), enhetsskole [masculine] (Norwegian), enhetsskola [common-gender] (Swedish), ysgol gyfun [feminine] (Welsh)

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