elementary
pertaining to or dealing with elements, rudiments, or first principles: an elementary grammar.
of or relating to an elementary school: elementary teachers.
of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple or uncompounded.
pertaining to the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, or to the great forces of nature; elemental.
Chemistry. of or noting one or more elements.
Origin of elementary
1synonym study For elementary
Other words from elementary
- el·e·men·tar·i·ly [el-uh-men-ter-uh-lee], /ˌɛl ə mɛnˈtɛr ə li/, adverb
- el·e·men·ta·ri·ness, noun
- non·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective
- post·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective
- pre·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective
- qua·si-el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective
- su·per·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective
- trans·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective
- un·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective
Words that may be confused with elementary
- elemental, elementary
Words Nearby elementary
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How to use elementary in a sentence
At least two Massachusetts districts have eliminated elementary PE altogether this year, according to the president of the state’s SHAPE chapter.
Kids are shooting hoops with rolled up socks, but pandemic physical education is not canceled | Kelly Field | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostDespite the need, Pfizer is the only manufacturer whose pediatric vaccine trials are far enough along to potentially have data on elementary-school age children by the end of the summer.
Fauci: Vaccines for Kids as Young as First Graders Could Be Authorized by September | by Caroline Chen | February 11, 2021 | ProPublicaIn part of the city where demand was high for in-person learning, elementary students may be reporting to classrooms for only a few hours in the morning, with another group coming in the afternoon.
After months of planning, protests and false starts, D.C. students and teachers head to classes for first time in nearly a year | Perry Stein, Lauren Lumpkin, Joe Heim, Laura Meckler | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostThis elementary observation has deep connections to many areas of mathematics and yet is simple enough to be taught to kindergartners.
In the late 1960s, Ralph Dotinga – the son of Dutch immigrant dairy farmers – was a 6-foot-6 teacher at a Chula Vista elementary school.
The Long Goodbye: How COVID-19 Took My Dad’s Life | Randy Dotinga | January 11, 2021 | Voice of San Diego
Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner! | Olivia Nuzzi | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTSupporters pointed to math and literacy gains, while critics noted that those improvements disappeared in elementary school.
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball? | Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA small-town Ohio elementary school teacher just racked up 25 charges on an otherwise clean record for allegedly raping her son.
Ohio Elementary School Teacher Charged With Raping Her Son | Nina Strochlic | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer lawyer said he thought she had been fired from her job, as a first-grade teacher at Cridersville elementary.
Ohio Elementary School Teacher Charged With Raping Her Son | Nina Strochlic | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe had no conception of the use of the other arms of the service, and never gained even the most elementary knowledge of strategy.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonHave cabled a very elementary question: "Could not the Japanese bombs be copied in England?"
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonWith them he is obliged to submit his bills to the elementary rules of arithmetic, and be careful that two and two make only four.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellAs time passed, this fund expanded considerably and was used to improve elementary education.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyIt is used in journals, memoirs, biographies, and many elementary histories.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
British Dictionary definitions for elementary
/ (ˌɛlɪˈmɛntərɪ, -trɪ) /
not difficult; simple; rudimentary
of or concerned with the first principles of a subject; introductory or fundamental
maths (of a function) having the form of an algebraic, exponential, trigonometric, or a logarithmic function, or any combination of these
chem another word for elemental (def. 5)
Derived forms of elementary
- elementarily, adverb
- elementariness, noun
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