A high school is the school for teenagers before university. Finish high school.
It is the standard American word, where the British usually say secondary school. A Scottish high school is often one of the oldest schools in the country rather than an American import.
1nounhigh schoolThe school for teenagers before university.
“He left high school at seventeen and never went back.”
high school is a school.
Also accepted in games: secondary school
Middle English hyg scole meant a school for higher study, with cognates in Dutch and German.
Middle English
hyȝ scole — school for higher education
English, today
high school
Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”). Cognate with Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”). by surface analysis, en + high + school.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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