comprehensive school

noun

composite school.

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earnest
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose.
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Origin of comprehensive school

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby comprehensive school

comprador, comprehend, comprehensible, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensive school, compress, compressed, compressed air, compressed speech, compressibility
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British Dictionary definitions for comprehensive school

comprehensive school

noun

mainly British a secondary school for children of all abilities from the same district
Eastern Canadian another name for composite school
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