primary school

What does primary school mean?

primary school means "a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades".

What is another word for primary school?

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

primary 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for primary school come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.