"high school" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhaɪ.skul/ [US], [ˈhɐɪsku̟ɫ] [US], /ˈhʌɪskul/ (note: Canada, idle-idol split) Audio: En-us-high school.ogg [US], en-ca-high_school.opus [Canada], EN-AU ck1 high school.ogg [Australia] Forms: high schools [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”), equivalent to high + school. Cognate with Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|hyȝ scole|t=school for higher education}} Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”), {{af|en|high|school}} high + school, {{cog|nl|hogeschool|t=academy, university, graduate school}} Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), {{cog|de|Hochschule|t=academy, college, university}} German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} high school (countable and uncountable, plural high schools)
  1. (education) An institution which provides all or part of secondary education. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Schools
    Sense id: en-high_school-en-noun-I4Ordv7h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Topics: education
  2. (Canada, US, Australia, Scotland) Secondary school. Tags: Australia, Canada, Scotland, US, countable, uncountable Synonyms: highschool Derived forms: high school student (english: translation hub), junior high school, senior high school Translations: hoërskool (Afrikaans), مَدْرَسَة ثَانَوِيَّة (madrasa ṯānawiyya) (english: secondary) [feminine] (Arabic), ثانوي (ṯānawi, sānawi) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), միջնակարգ դպրոց (miǰnakarg dprocʿ) (Armenian), ali məktəb (Azerbaijani), lise (Azerbaijani), 高級中學 (note: in the East) (Chinese Mandarin), 高级中学 (gāojí zhōngxué) (Chinese Mandarin), 中學 (note: in the West) (Chinese Mandarin), 中学 (zhōngxué) (english: secondary) (Chinese Mandarin), střední škola (english: secondary) [feminine] (Czech), gymnasium (english: ca.) (Danish), middelbare school (Dutch), gimnazio (Esperanto), mezlernejo (Esperanto), liceo (Esperanto), keskkool (Estonian), gümnaasium (Estonian), lukio (Finnish), école secondaire (english: secondary) [feminine] (French), lycée [masculine] (French), collège [Switzerland, masculine] (French), უმაღლესი სკოლა (umaɣlesi sḳola) (Georgian), Oberschule [feminine] (German), Mittelschule (english: secondary) [feminine] (German), γυμνάσιο (gymnásio) [neuter] (Greek), λύκειο (lýkeio) [neuter] (Greek), középiskola (Hungarian), gimnázium (Hungarian), menntaskóli (Icelandic), gimnazio (Ido), sekolah menengah (Indonesian), sekolah menengah atas (Indonesian), sekolah menengah umum (Indonesian), ardscoil [feminine] (Irish), liceo [masculine] (Italian), ginnasio [masculine] (Italian), liceo scientifico (Italian), liceo classico (Italian), 高校 (kōkō) (alt: こうこう) (Japanese), 高等学校 (kōtō gakkō) (alt: こうとうがっこう) (Japanese), សាលាជាន់ខ្ពស់ (sala juan khpous) (Khmer), វិទ្យាល័យ (vi tyea lai) (Khmer), 고등학교 (godeunghakgyo) (alt: 高等學校) (Korean), kolej (Ladino), lise (Ladino), gimnazija [feminine] (Lithuanian), средно училиште (sredno učilište) [neuter] (Macedonian), гимназија (gimnazija) [feminine] (Macedonian), sekolah tinggi (Malay), sekolah menengah (Malay), videregående skole (Norwegian), دبیرستان (dabirestân) (Persian), لیسه (lise) [Dari] (Persian), Huachschool [feminine] (Plautdietsch), szkoła średnia [feminine] (Polish), secundário [masculine] (Portuguese), secundária [feminine] (Portuguese), liceu [masculine] (Portuguese), liceu [neuter] (Romanian), școală secundară [feminine] (Romanian), gimnaziu [neuter] (Romanian), școală medie [feminine] (Romanian), сре́дняя шко́ла (srédnjaja škóla) (english: secondary) [feminine] (Russian), àrd-sgoil [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), gimnazija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), srednja škola [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), средња школа [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), stredná škola (Slovak), secundaria (english: secondary) [feminine] (Spanish), preparatoria [feminine] (Spanish), bachillerato [masculine] (Spanish), high school [common-gender] (Swedish), gymnasie [common-gender] (Swedish), gymnasieskola [neuter] (Swedish), мактаби миёна (maktabi miyona) (Tajik), ไฮสกูล (hai-sàgoon) (Thai), lise (Turkish), trường trung học phổ thông (Vietnamese), מיטלשול (mitlshul) (english: secondary) [feminine] (Yiddish), גימנאַזיע (gimnazye) [feminine] (Yiddish), הײַסקול (hayskul) [US, masculine] (Yiddish)
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          "word": "liceo classico"
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          "alt": "こうこう",
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          "roman": "kōkō",
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "godeunghakgyo",
          "word": "고등학교"
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "sredno učilište",
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          "lang": "Malay",
          "word": "sekolah tinggi"
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          "word": "sekolah menengah"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "word": "mezlernejo"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "lang": "German",
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      "code": "km",
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      "lang": "Korean",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "gimnazija"
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      "roman": "dabirestân",
      "word": "دبیرستان"
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    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "lise",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "لیسه"
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "szkoła średnia"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "secundário"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "secundária"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
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      "word": "liceu"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "code": "ro",
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        "neuter"
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      "word": "gimnaziu"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "code": "gd",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "àrd-sgoil"
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "gimnazija"
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        "feminine"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "word": "lise"
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      "word": "גימנאַזיע"
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "הײַסקול"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "high school"
  ],
  "word": "high school"
}
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  "msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'secondary school', 2: 'secondary school'}",
  "path": [
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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "high school",
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}

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