noun
a large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities
• Syn: ↑composite school
• Hypernyms: ↑secondary school, ↑lyceum, ↑lycee, ↑Gymnasium, ↑middle school
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comprehensive school noun
A secondary school, serving a particular area, that provides education for pupils of all levels of ability
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Main Entry: ↑comprehend
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comprehensive school UK US noun [countable] [singular comprehensive school plural comprehensive schools]
a UK school for students of different levels of ability between the ages of 11 and 18. A comprehensive school is often simply called a comprehensive .
See also: grammar school
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comprehensive school,
(in Great Britain and Canada) a secondary school with a curriculum designed to meet the needs of a variety of students by offering courses both in general education and in commercial, trade, technical, and other specialized subjects.
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noun, pl ⋯ schools [count]
Brit : a school in Britain for children of all different levels of ability who are over the age of 11
Some of his friends attended the local comprehensive school.
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(in Britain) a large state secondary school for boys and girls of all abilities aged 11 or over. Comprehensive schools were introduced in the 1960s to replace the system of dividing children between more academic ↑grammar schools and less academic ↑secondary modern schools.
See also: ↑comprehensive
Useful english dictionary. 2012.