high school

See also: highschool

English

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high school

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Alternative forms

• highschool (proscribed)
• HS

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”), equivalent to high +‎ school. Cognate with Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.skul/, [ˈhɐɪsku̟ɫ]

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• (Canada, idle-idol split) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɪskul/

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Noun

high school (countable and uncountable, plural high schools)

2. (education) An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.
3. (Canada, US, Australia, Scotland) A secondary school.
4. (Philippines) A secondary education school, consisting of junior high school and senior high school (grades 7-12)
5. (Philippines, historical) A secondary education school for years 1-4 (now junior high school)

Derived terms

• highschooler
• high school student (translation hub)
• junior high school
• senior high school

Translations

secondary school — see also secondary school

Afrikaans: hoërskool (af) Arabic: مَدْرَسَة ثَانَوِيَّة f (madrasa ṯānawiyya) (secondary) Hijazi Arabic: ثانوي m (ṯānawi, sānawi) Armenian: միջնակարգ դպրոց (miǰnakarg dprocʻ) Azerbaijani: ali məktəb, lise (az) Chinese: Mandarin: 高級中學 / 高级中学 (zh) (gāojí zhōngxué), 高中 (zh) (gāozhōng) (in the East), 中學 / 中学 (zh) (zhōngxué) (in the West)(secondary) Czech: střední škola (cs) f (secondary) Danish: gymnasium (da) (ca.) Dutch: middelbare school (nl) Esperanto: gimnazio, mezlernejo, liceo (eo) Estonian: keskkool, gümnaasium (et) Finnish: lukio (fi) French: école secondaire f (secondary), lycée (fr) m, collège (fr) m (Switzerland) Georgian: უმაღლესი სკოლა (umaɣlesi sḳola) German: Oberschule (de) f, Mittelschule (de) f (secondary) Greek: γυμνάσιο (el) n (gymnásio), λύκειο (el) n (lýkeio) Haitian Creole: lekòl segondè Hungarian: középiskola (hu), gimnázium (hu) Icelandic: menntaskóli (is) Ido: gimnazio (io) Indonesian: sekolah menengah (id), sekolah menengah atas (id), sekolah menengah umum (id) Irish: ardscoil f Italian: liceo (it) m, ginnasio (it) m, liceo scientifico m, liceo classico m Japanese: 高校 (ja) (こうこう, kōkō), 高等学校 (ja) (こうとうがっこう, kōtō gakkō) Khmer: សាលាជាន់ខ្ពស់ (sala juan khpous), វិទ្យាល័យ (vi tyea lai) Korean: 고등학교(高等學校) (ko) (godeunghakgyo) Ladino: kolej, lise Lithuanian: gimnazija f Macedonian: средно училиште n (sredno učilište), гимназија f (gimnazija) Malay: sekolah tinggi (ms), sekolah menengah (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: videregående skole m Nynorsk: vidaregåande skole m, vidaregåande skule m Persian: دبیرستان (fa) (dabirestân), لیسه (fa) (lise) (Dari) Plautdietsch: Huachschool f Polish: szkoła średnia (pl) f Portuguese: secundário (pt) m, secundária (pt) f, liceu m Romanian: liceu (ro) n, școală secundară f, gimnaziu (ro) n, școală medie (ro) f Russian: сре́дняя шко́ла (ru) f (srédnjaja škóla) (secondary) Scottish Gaelic: àrd-sgoil f Serbo-Croatian: gimnazija (sh) f, srednja škola f, средња школа f Slovak: stredná škola Spanish: secundaria (es) f (secondary), preparatoria (es) f, bachillerato (es) m Swedish: high school c, gymnasie (sv) c, gymnasieskola (sv) n Tagalog: hay-iskul, hayskul Tajik: мактаби миёна (maktab-i miyona) Thai: ไฮสกูล (hai-sàgoon) Turkish: lise (tr) Vietnamese: trường trung học phổ thông Yiddish: מיטלשול f (mitlshul) (secondary), גימנאַזיע f (gimnazye), הײַסקול m (hayskul) (US)