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Noun

schooldays - the time of life when you are going to school

schooltime

time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state

Translations

أيام التَّلْمَذَه

školní léta

skoletid

Schulzeit

diákévek

skólaskylda

skoletid

školské roky

šolski dan

okul günleri

学生时代

schooldays

[ˈskuːldeɪz] NPL → años mpl del colegio

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

schooldays

[ˈskuːldeɪz] npl → années fpl de scolaritéschool dinner (British) n → déjeuner m à la cantine (scolaire)school district n (US) → secteur m scolaireschool fees npl → frais mpl de scolaritéschool friend schoolfriend [ˈskuːlfrɛnd] n → ami(e) m/f d'école

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

schooldays

[ˈskuːlˌdeɪz] npl → tempi mpl della scuola

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

school¹

(skuːl) noun

1. a place for teaching especially children. She goes to the school; He's not at university – he's still at school; (American) He's still in school.

2. the pupils of a school. The behaviour of this school in public is sometimes not very good.

3. a series of meetings or a place for instruction etc. She runs a sewing school; a driving school.

4. a department of a university or college dealing with a particular subject. the School of Mathematics.

5. (American) a university or college.

6. a group of people with the same ideas etc. There are two schools of thought about the treatment of this disease.

verb

to train through practice. We must school ourselves to be patient.

ˈschoolbag noun

a bag for carrying books etc to and from school. She had a schoolbag on her back.

ˈschoolboy, ˈschoolgirl nouns

a boy or girl who goes to school.

ˈschoolchild noun – plural ˈschoolchildren –

a child who goes to school.

ˈschool-day noun

a day on which children go to school. On a school-day I get up at seven o'clock.

ˈschooldays noun plural

the time of a person's life during which he goes to school.

ˈschoolfellow noun

a person who is or was taught at the same school, especially in the same class. I met an old schoolfellow of yours.

ˈschool-leaver noun

a school-pupil who is about to leave, or has just left, school eg because he has finished his course of education there.

ˈschoolmaster noun – feminine ˈschoolmistress –

a person who teaches in school.

ˈschoolmate noun

a schoolfellow, especially a friend.

ˈschool-teacher noun

a person who teaches in a school.

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References in classic literature

I have forgotten all about my schooldays. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

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Yet it was not because I had to study that I used to weep, and in time I grew more used to things, and, after my schooldays were over, shed tears only when I was parting with friends.

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"Call him RAYMOND FITZOSBORNE," suggested Diana, who had a store of such names laid away in her memory, relics of the old "Story Club," which she and Anne and Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis had had in their schooldays.

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Prince Maiyo is a man, not an overgrown boy to go through life shooting birds, playing games which belong properly to your schooldays, and hanging round the stage doors of half the theatres in London.

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Could this splendid six feet of manhood be the little Paul of Avonlea schooldays?

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Of his schooldays we know little, but we can guess, for one story that has come down to us, that he was a shy, nervous boy.

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So, when Gertrude met Lady Brandon, her lot was secretly wretched, and she was glad to accept an invitation to Brandon Beeches in order to escape for a while from the admiral's daily sarcasms on the marriage list in the "Times." The invitation was the more acceptable because Sir Charles was no mushroom noble, and, in the schooldays which Gertrude now remembered as the happiest of her life, she had acknowledged that Jane's family and connections were more aristocratic than those of any other student then at Alton, herself excepted.

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SCHOOLDAYS were billed as the happiest of our lives, so what an angrily avoidable upset that two million children in England alone are sent to lessons in ill-fitting, frayed, dirty and inappropriate uniforms.

Uniform failure; VOICE OF THE

IHAVE very positive memories of my early schooldays, clearly down to good teachers who gave us the basic skills and manners to head into the real world.

LOST TRIBES The People's Memories

During my schooldays in the late 1980s [when I was in Class 5 in my native district of Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India], we as students had often admired the fact that matchbox-sized TVs were available in Japan and that those TVs were the creative abilities of Japan.

Japan is inspiring

Memories of Felling by Anthea Lang Memories of Felling Book With over 130 illustrations this book shows Felling's fascinating heritage and recalls schooldays, childhood, cinemas, pubs, shops, working life in mines and factories, local buildings and streets, as well as days to remember and people of the community.

Pit Ponies Book Pit ponies were [...]

The Best Days of our Lives: Schooldays is a funny, nostalgic book and will be on the bookshelves from October 1, in time for the Christmas market.

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