"summer school" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: summer schools [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} summer school (plural summer schools)
  1. Any of various academic sessions held in the summer at schools or universities when the usual students are away; either for supplementary or remedial study or as part of distance learning. Wikipedia link: summer school Translations (academic sessions held in the summer): somerskool (Afrikaans), 暑期學校 (Chinese Cantonese), 暑期学校 (syu² kei⁴ hok⁶ haau⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 暑期學校 (Chinese Mandarin), 暑期学校 (alt: shǔqī xuéxiào (mainland), shǔqí xuéxiào (Taiwan)) (Chinese Mandarin), kesäkoulu (Finnish), école d’été [feminine] (French), université d’été [feminine] (French), Sommerakademie [feminine] (German), nyári iskola (Hungarian), 夏期学校 (kaki gakkō) (alt: かきがっこう) (Japanese), サマースクール (samā sukūru) (Japanese), ле́тние ку́рсы (létnije kúrsy) [masculine, plural] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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