middle school

Questions about middle school

What is another word for middle school?

It depends which middle school you mean. In the sense “a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12”, the synonyms are secondary school, lyceum, lycee, Gymnasium. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of middle school?

WordNet records no antonym for middle school. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for middle school come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of middle school

• Full entry for middle schoolAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for middle schoolWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.