comprehensive school

1. 1.

   a large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities

   Synonymscomposite school

   Broadersecondary school

Questions about comprehensive school

What does comprehensive school mean?

comprehensive school means "a large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities".

What is another word for comprehensive school?

Close synonyms include composite school. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comprehensive school a common word?

comprehensive school is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.