high school

1. 1.

   a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12

   “he goes to the neighborhood highschool”

   Synonymssenior high schoolsenior highhighhighschool

   Broadersecondary school

Questions about high school

What does high school mean?

high school means "a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12".

What is another word for high school?

Close synonyms include senior high school, senior high, high, highschool. 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 high school a common word?

high school is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.