junior school

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nounBritish.
  1. a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.

Origin of junior school

1
First recorded in 1870–75

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How to use junior school in a sentence

  • His period in the junior school in Hertfordshire was brief, and apparently quite uneventful.

    Coleridge | Samuel Levy Bensusan
  • The meeting in the Fifth, however, was to consider a far more important subject than the rebellious clubs of the junior school.

  • But when it came to the junior school—the Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles—all other partisanship was thrown quite into the shade.

British Dictionary definitions for junior school

junior school

noun
  1. (in England and Wales) a school for children aged between 7 and 11: Compare infant school

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