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Alternative forms
Adjective
school-age (not comparable)
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) Being of an age during which attendance at school is customary.
- Synonym: school-aged
- He's no school-age child; he's in college now.
Translations
being of an age during which attendance at school is customary
Noun
school-age (plural school-ages)
- Alternative form of school age.
1879, William Ogle, “XXII. Observations on Outbreaks of Diphtheria in Rural Districts”, in William Howship Dickinson, Thomas Pickering Pick, editors, St. George's Hospital Reports, volume 9, London: J. & A. Churchil, page 716:One of the gloomy features of village-life is the absence of young men and young women from the scene. So soon as children have passed school-age, they are drafted off in large numbers into the towns for service or other employment.
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