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elementary school

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elementary school
n.
1. A school for the first four to eight years of a child's formal education, often including kindergarten.
2. The first four to eight years of a child's formal education. Also called grade school, grammar school, primary school.
elementary school
Noun
1. Brit same as primary school
2. US & Canad a state school for the first six to eight years of a child's education
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Noun1.elementary schoolelementary school - a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades
grade school, primary school, grammar school
school - an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"
junior school - British school for children aged 7-11
infant school - British school for children aged 5-7
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Spanish elementary school n (US) → escuela de enseñanza primaria
elementary schoolEn Estados Unidos y Canadá se llama elementary school al centro estatal en el que los niños reciben los primeros seis u ocho años de su educación, también llamado "grade school" o "grammar school".
French elementary school elementary n (US) → école f primaire
elementary schoolAux États-Unis et au Canada, une elementary school (également appelée "grade school" ou "grammar school" aux États-Unis) est une école publique où les enfants passent les six à huit premières années de leur scolarité.
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Consequently, Nature herself supplies us with an ascending scale or Alphabet of angles for half a degree up to 60 degrees, Specimens of which are placed in every Elementary School throughout the land.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
On the piteous spectacle of the pair spending their evenings in shorthand schools and polytechnic classes, learning bookkeeping and typewriting with incipient junior clerks, male and female, from the elementary schools, let me not dwell.
Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
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