normal school

noun

(formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.

Origin of normal school

First recorded in 1825–35

Compare teachers college.

Words Nearby normal school

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How to use normal school in a sentence

Those students would be un-enrolled and then re-enrolled into their normal school.
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Which is particularly welcome to many families with kids who have been kept from normal school, activities, and socializing for the past 12 months.
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Michelle Obama is fixed on keeping her daughters on a normal school schedule.
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She is a country school-ma'am, and is to be graduated this month in the normal school in Mayville, where you are visiting.
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At the same time he stated that government would not persist in their proposal to found a normal school.
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We make the profession of teacher a stop-gap for girls between the normal school and matrimony.
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A little reflection will satisfy us how great a departure this would be from the just idea of the normal school.
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At the age of 18 she was graduated from the Salem normal school.
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British Dictionary definitions for Normal School

Normal School

noun

(in France, and formerly England, the US, and Canada) a school or institution for training teachers

Origin of Normal School

C19: from French École Normale: the first French school so named was intended as a model for similar institutions

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