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primary school

noun

  1. a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.


primary school

noun

  1. (in Britain) a school for children below the age of 11. It is usually divided into an infant and a junior section
  2. (in the US and Canada) a school equivalent to the first three or four grades of elementary school, sometimes including a kindergarten


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Word History and Origins

Origin of primary school1

First recorded in 1795–1805

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Example Sentences

She saw her first tourist 10 years ago, three years before the village got a primary school.

He was killed in the attack, which Boya Dee tweeted happened "right next to a primary school."

Kate was visiting the Willows Primary School, which is, against all the odds, one of the city's most successful primaries.

Among his eight primary school classmates, 24-year-old Moshe Uzan says that only one other remains in Tunisia.

Would Lanza really have been gang-rushed by fast-thinking primary school students if he stopped to reload?

There are fifty little boys and girls who go to the Blank street Primary School.

There seemed to be no disagreement on the question of educating boys and girls of primary-school age together.

Acts of indecency had occurred long before they went to the post-primary school.

The desirability of co-education at the post-primary school level, however, was frequently disputed.

In planning one post-primary school the rate of 0.7 children to a family was adopted.

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