| 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 |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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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