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grammar school

  1. Now Rare an elementary school: the term was variously applied to different school levels, esp. to that between the fifth and eighth grades
  2. in England
    1. Historical a school where Latin was taught
    2. a government-supported secondary school preparing pupils for college

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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