Grammar School Definition

noun
An elementary school.
Webster's New World
In England.
Webster's New World

(archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.

Wiktionary

(chiefly UK) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.

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Noun

Singular:
grammar school
Plural:
grammar-schools

Grammar School Sentence Examples

  • The almshouses, known as St John's hospital, were founded in 1602; and in 1637 a free grammar school was endowed by Lady Grace Manners.

  • On the 18th of July 1542 it was surrendered to Henry VIII., and its possessions granted to Robert Dacres on condition of maintaining the grammar school and paying the master £10 a year, the same salary as the headmasters of Winchester and Eton, and maintaining the almshouse.

  • There is a grammar-school.

  • To the west of the town is the grammar school of Giggleswick, one of the principal public schools in the north of England, founded in 15.12.

  • From 1834 to 1862 he was headmaster of Clapham grammar school.

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