school year

noun

the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
academic year.

school year

a twelve-month period, (in Britain) usually starting in late summer and continuing for three terms until the following summer, during which pupils remain in the same class
the time during this period when the school is open

First recorded in 1855–60

I plan to put both of you on the firing-line next school-year.

And this is one out of the school-year's two hundred and sixteen days--all of which will be like this, or worse.

Immediately after Easter the real excitement of the school-year began.

We do not know definitely that there was any fixed length for the school-year.

The children were delighted to be back in Sunday-school and to begin their school-year.

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