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English
Noun
secondary school (countable and uncountable, plural secondary schools)
- (education, UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.
2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77:One of the key roles played by the Whitby line is the transport of children from rural spots along the branch to secondary school in the coastal town.
- (education, Canada, US) The federally designated, graduation-separated classification of grades 9–12 (approximately ages 14–18), regardless of whether they are compiled together in one school or separate from the other grades.
- (education, Singapore) Middle school; junior high school; a school that one attends between the ages of 12-17 (equivalent of grades 7-10 in North America, and years 7-10 in Australia).
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- Afrikaans: sekondêre skool, hoërskool (af)
- Arabic: مَدْرَسَة ثَانَوِيَّة f (madrasa(t) ṯānawiyya), ثَانَوِيَّة (ṯānawiyya)
- Azerbaijani: orta məktəb, dəbiristan (South Azerbaijani)
- Brunei Malay: skulah menengah
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 中學 / 中学 (zh) (zhōngxué)
- Dutch: secundaire school f or m, school voor voortgezet onderwijs f or m, middelbare school (nl) f or m
- Esperanto: gimnazio, mezlernejo, liceo (eo)
- Finnish: yläaste ja lukio
- French: école secondaire f, lycée (fr) m (equivalent in France), collège (fr) m (Switzerland)
- German: Mittelschule (de) f (the age of 10 to 16), Oberschule (de) f (various types of schools)
- Greek: λύκειο (el) n (lýkeio)
- Haitian Creole: lekòl segondè
- Hungarian: középiskola (hu)
- Icelandic: framhaldsskóli (is) m, menntaskóli (is) m
- Ido: gimnazio (io)
- Indonesian: sekolah menengah (id), sekolah lanjutan (id)
- Irish: ardscoil f, meánscoil f
- Italian: liceo (it) m (lyceum), ginnasio (it) m (first 2 years of a "classical lyceum"), liceo classico m (classical lyceum), liceo scientifico m (scientific lyceum), liceo linguistico m (linguistic lyceum), liceo artistico m (art lyceum), scuola secondaria f (general sense), scuola superiore (it) f (general sense)
- Japanese: 中学校 (ja) (ちゅうがっこう, chūgakkō) (the age of 13 to 15), 高校 (ja) (kōkō) (the age of 16 to 18)
- Khmer: សាលាទុតិយៈ (sala tu teh yak), អនុវិទ្យាល័យ (ak nu vi tyea lay)
- Latvian: vidusskola f
- Luxembourgish: Lycée (lb) n
- Macedonian: средно училиште n (sredno učilište)
- Malay: sekolah menengah (ms)
- Manchu: ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠᡳ
ᡨᠠᠴᡳᡴᡡ (dulimbai tacikū)
- Persian: دبیرستان (fa) (dabirestân)
- Polish: szkoła średnia (pl) f
- Portuguese: secundária (pt) m, liceu m
- Romanian: liceu (ro) n, școală secundară f, gimnaziu (ro) n
- Russian: сре́дняя шко́ла (ru) f (srédnjaja škóla)
- Scottish Gaelic: àrd-sgoil f
- Slovak: stredná škola
- Spanish: secundaria (es) f, escuela secundaria f
- Swahili: sekondari (sw), shule ya upili, shule ya sekondari
- Tagalog: mataas na paaralan, paaralang sekundaryo, sekundarya
- Vietnamese: trường trung học
- Welsh: ysgol uwchradd f
- Zhuang: cunghyoz
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