grammar school

Questions about grammar school

What does grammar school mean?

grammar school means "a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for grammar school?

Close synonyms include grade school, elementary school, primary 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 grammar school a common word?

grammar 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.