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primary school
noun
1.
a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
Origin:
1795–1805
1795–1805
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| primary school | |
| —n | |
| 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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Encyclopedia Britannica
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primary school
in many countries, an elementary school. It is the preferred term in such countries as Great Britain and France (French ecole primaire) and in most publications of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. In the United States it is not a synonym but denotes only the first years of elementary education-specifically, kindergarten and grades 1 through 3.
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Example sentences
Nobody in her family has ever finished primary school.
Only later did nations reach a verdict on whether it was acceptable to target a munitions factory next to a primary school.
There is a veterinary clinic, a health center and a primary school, but few other signs of permanence.
Then a former student of my father started a primary school in a town closer to school.
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