Definition of grammar school in English:

grammar school

noun

1(in the UK) a state secondary school to which pupils are admitted on the basis of ability. Since 1965 most have been absorbed into the comprehensive school system.
（英国的）国立中学（学生按能力高低录取，1965年后大多纳入综合学校系统）
Example sentencesExamples
- Northern Ireland still uses the selective grammar school system that was largely replaced by comprehensive education in Britain in the 1970s.
- After passing the 11-plus he became the last of the grammar school intake to the former Boys High School before comprehensive education.
- Schools in Trafford, which continues to be the only authority in the region to operate a grammar school system, have shown the greatest leap in exam results.
- Now aged 70, Prof Meadow was educated at a grammar school in Wigan and studied at Oxford University.
- Their 13-year-old son attends a grammar school and their daughter a primary school.
- Two-thirds of grammar school pupils in the early 1950s were working class.
- Because grammar school pupils had already reached a high level of attainment by the age of 14, comprehensive schools had more scope to ‘add value’ in the run-up to GCSEs.
- In 1998, the government made it possible for parents to vote on the future of the selective grammar school system.
- The divide between academic and vocational education could be formalised in a way not seen in Britain since the grammar school and secondary modern divide.
- After attending the local grammar school he won a scholarship to Jesus College Oxford.
- Surely it's obvious that a comprehensive whose pupils only do averagely well at age fourteen have a much better chance to get their pupils to improve than a grammar school where the pupils were already gaining excellent grades?
- He went through grammar school education, but admits, ‘I wasn't the best student!’
- He had been a bright pupil, supported by his mother and encouraged by the more enlightened teachers in his grammar school.
- She was a geography teacher at the ladies grammar school at Bridlington.
- It was in this in agricultural market town that Sydney had been appointed as headmaster of the grammar school, and this was the town in which Mary spent the next ten years of her life.
- Commonweal was a grammar school then, built to accommodate 410 pupils and children had to pass the 11-plus exam to be accepted for a place.
- When Jean started at the school it was just changing from a grammar school to a comprehensive, and there were several years before it was totally comprehensive.
- I went to grammar school where all 600 pupils had to learn the recorder in their first year, the music master believing that there was a bit of music in everyone.
- I went to a modest-sized grammar school with a sixth form rather than a huge, impersonal comprehensive.
- She went to a state primary school then grammar school, before going off to London to study history.
1. 1.1historical A school founded in or before the 16th century for teaching Latin, later becoming a secondary school teaching academic subjects.
  〈史〉文法学校（16世纪前后建立的教授拉丁语的学校，这些学校后来成为教授其他文化基础学科的中学）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Latin was taught in grammar school so that each new generation could study our shared history through the written word.
  During the Middle Ages, the grammar school provided education for poor scholars intended for the church and for the sons of noblemen.
  As early as 1496, ‘freeholders of substance’ were obliged by law to send their sons to school from age eight and every town of any consequence had a grammar school teaching Latin.
2US
another term for elementary school
Example sentencesExamples
- There's a grammar school, a high school, and a college.

Definition of grammar school in US English:

grammar school

nounˈɡramər ˌsko͞olˈɡræmər ˌskul

1US
another term for elementary school
Example sentencesExamples
- There's a grammar school, a high school, and a college.
2(in the UK) a state secondary school to which pupils are admitted on the basis of ability. Since 1965 most have been absorbed into the comprehensive school system.
（英国的）国立中学（学生按能力高低录取，1965年后大多纳入综合学校系统）
Example sentencesExamples
- I went to grammar school where all 600 pupils had to learn the recorder in their first year, the music master believing that there was a bit of music in everyone.
- He had been a bright pupil, supported by his mother and encouraged by the more enlightened teachers in his grammar school.
- She went to a state primary school then grammar school, before going off to London to study history.
- Now aged 70, Prof Meadow was educated at a grammar school in Wigan and studied at Oxford University.
- The divide between academic and vocational education could be formalised in a way not seen in Britain since the grammar school and secondary modern divide.
- In 1998, the government made it possible for parents to vote on the future of the selective grammar school system.
- After passing the 11-plus he became the last of the grammar school intake to the former Boys High School before comprehensive education.
- I went to a modest-sized grammar school with a sixth form rather than a huge, impersonal comprehensive.
- After attending the local grammar school he won a scholarship to Jesus College Oxford.
- Schools in Trafford, which continues to be the only authority in the region to operate a grammar school system, have shown the greatest leap in exam results.
- Two-thirds of grammar school pupils in the early 1950s were working class.
- It was in this in agricultural market town that Sydney had been appointed as headmaster of the grammar school, and this was the town in which Mary spent the next ten years of her life.
- When Jean started at the school it was just changing from a grammar school to a comprehensive, and there were several years before it was totally comprehensive.
- She was a geography teacher at the ladies grammar school at Bridlington.
- Because grammar school pupils had already reached a high level of attainment by the age of 14, comprehensive schools had more scope to ‘add value’ in the run-up to GCSEs.
- Commonweal was a grammar school then, built to accommodate 410 pupils and children had to pass the 11-plus exam to be accepted for a place.
- Surely it's obvious that a comprehensive whose pupils only do averagely well at age fourteen have a much better chance to get their pupils to improve than a grammar school where the pupils were already gaining excellent grades?
- Their 13-year-old son attends a grammar school and their daughter a primary school.
- He went through grammar school education, but admits, ‘I wasn't the best student!’
- Northern Ireland still uses the selective grammar school system that was largely replaced by comprehensive education in Britain in the 1970s.
1. 2.1 A school founded in or before the 16th century for teaching Latin, later becoming a secondary school teaching academic subjects.
  〈史〉文法学校（16世纪前后建立的教授拉丁语的学校，这些学校后来成为教授其他文化基础学科的中学）
  Example sentencesExamples
  During the Middle Ages, the grammar school provided education for poor scholars intended for the church and for the sons of noblemen.
  Latin was taught in grammar school so that each new generation could study our shared history through the written word.
  As early as 1496, ‘freeholders of substance’ were obliged by law to send their sons to school from age eight and every town of any consequence had a grammar school teaching Latin.

单词	grammar school
释义	Definition of grammar school in English: grammar school noun 1(in the UK) a state secondary school to which pupils are admitted on the basis of ability. Since 1965 most have been absorbed into the comprehensive school system. （英国的）国立中学（学生按能力高低录取，1965年后大多纳入综合学校系统） Example sentencesExamples Northern Ireland still uses the selective grammar school system that was largely replaced by comprehensive education in Britain in the 1970s. After passing the 11-plus he became the last of the grammar school intake to the former Boys High School before comprehensive education. Schools in Trafford, which continues to be the only authority in the region to operate a grammar school system, have shown the greatest leap in exam results. Now aged 70, Prof Meadow was educated at a grammar school in Wigan and studied at Oxford University. Their 13-year-old son attends a grammar school and their daughter a primary school. Two-thirds of grammar school pupils in the early 1950s were working class. Because grammar school pupils had already reached a high level of attainment by the age of 14, comprehensive schools had more scope to ‘add value’ in the run-up to GCSEs. In 1998, the government made it possible for parents to vote on the future of the selective grammar school system. The divide between academic and vocational education could be formalised in a way not seen in Britain since the grammar school and secondary modern divide. After attending the local grammar school he won a scholarship to Jesus College Oxford. Surely it's obvious that a comprehensive whose pupils only do averagely well at age fourteen have a much better chance to get their pupils to improve than a grammar school where the pupils were already gaining excellent grades? He went through grammar school education, but admits, ‘I wasn't the best student!’ He had been a bright pupil, supported by his mother and encouraged by the more enlightened teachers in his grammar school. She was a geography teacher at the ladies grammar school at Bridlington. It was in this in agricultural market town that Sydney had been appointed as headmaster of the grammar school, and this was the town in which Mary spent the next ten years of her life. Commonweal was a grammar school then, built to accommodate 410 pupils and children had to pass the 11-plus exam to be accepted for a place. When Jean started at the school it was just changing from a grammar school to a comprehensive, and there were several years before it was totally comprehensive. I went to grammar school where all 600 pupils had to learn the recorder in their first year, the music master believing that there was a bit of music in everyone. I went to a modest-sized grammar school with a sixth form rather than a huge, impersonal comprehensive. She went to a state primary school then grammar school, before going off to London to study history. 1.1historical A school founded in or before the 16th century for teaching Latin, later becoming a secondary school teaching academic subjects. 〈史〉文法学校（16世纪前后建立的教授拉丁语的学校，这些学校后来成为教授其他文化基础学科的中学） Example sentencesExamples Latin was taught in grammar school so that each new generation could study our shared history through the written word. During the Middle Ages, the grammar school provided education for poor scholars intended for the church and for the sons of noblemen. As early as 1496, ‘freeholders of substance’ were obliged by law to send their sons to school from age eight and every town of any consequence had a grammar school teaching Latin. 2US another term for elementary school Example sentencesExamples There's a grammar school, a high school, and a college. Definition of grammar school in US English: grammar school nounˈɡramər ˌsko͞olˈɡræmər ˌskul 1US another term for elementary school Example sentencesExamples There's a grammar school, a high school, and a college. 2(in the UK) a state secondary school to which pupils are admitted on the basis of ability. Since 1965 most have been absorbed into the comprehensive school system. （英国的）国立中学（学生按能力高低录取，1965年后大多纳入综合学校系统） Example sentencesExamples I went to grammar school where all 600 pupils had to learn the recorder in their first year, the music master believing that there was a bit of music in everyone. He had been a bright pupil, supported by his mother and encouraged by the more enlightened teachers in his grammar school. She went to a state primary school then grammar school, before going off to London to study history. Now aged 70, Prof Meadow was educated at a grammar school in Wigan and studied at Oxford University. The divide between academic and vocational education could be formalised in a way not seen in Britain since the grammar school and secondary modern divide. In 1998, the government made it possible for parents to vote on the future of the selective grammar school system. After passing the 11-plus he became the last of the grammar school intake to the former Boys High School before comprehensive education. I went to a modest-sized grammar school with a sixth form rather than a huge, impersonal comprehensive. After attending the local grammar school he won a scholarship to Jesus College Oxford. Schools in Trafford, which continues to be the only authority in the region to operate a grammar school system, have shown the greatest leap in exam results. Two-thirds of grammar school pupils in the early 1950s were working class. It was in this in agricultural market town that Sydney had been appointed as headmaster of the grammar school, and this was the town in which Mary spent the next ten years of her life. When Jean started at the school it was just changing from a grammar school to a comprehensive, and there were several years before it was totally comprehensive. She was a geography teacher at the ladies grammar school at Bridlington. Because grammar school pupils had already reached a high level of attainment by the age of 14, comprehensive schools had more scope to ‘add value’ in the run-up to GCSEs. Commonweal was a grammar school then, built to accommodate 410 pupils and children had to pass the 11-plus exam to be accepted for a place. Surely it's obvious that a comprehensive whose pupils only do averagely well at age fourteen have a much better chance to get their pupils to improve than a grammar school where the pupils were already gaining excellent grades? Their 13-year-old son attends a grammar school and their daughter a primary school. He went through grammar school education, but admits, ‘I wasn't the best student!’ Northern Ireland still uses the selective grammar school system that was largely replaced by comprehensive education in Britain in the 1970s. 2.1 A school founded in or before the 16th century for teaching Latin, later becoming a secondary school teaching academic subjects. 〈史〉文法学校（16世纪前后建立的教授拉丁语的学校，这些学校后来成为教授其他文化基础学科的中学） Example sentencesExamples During the Middle Ages, the grammar school provided education for poor scholars intended for the church and for the sons of noblemen. Latin was taught in grammar school so that each new generation could study our shared history through the written word. As early as 1496, ‘freeholders of substance’ were obliged by law to send their sons to school from age eight and every town of any consequence had a grammar school teaching Latin.
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