comprehensive school


Origin of comprehensive school

1
First recorded in 1945–50

Words Nearby comprehensive school

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How to use comprehensive school in a sentence

  • She will persevere in this course till it secures her a comprehensive school system and an admirable university.

    A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene

British Dictionary definitions for comprehensive school

comprehensive school

noun
  1. mainly British a secondary school for children of all abilities from the same district

  2. Eastern Canadian another name for composite school

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