school day

1. 1.

   any day on which school is in session

   “go to bed early because tomorrow is a school day”

   Broaderday
2. 2.

   the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

   “stay after school”

   “he didn't miss a single day of school”

   “when the school day was done we would walk home together”

   Synonymsschoolschooltime

   Broadertime period

   Partsstudy hall

Questions about school day

What does school day mean?

school day means "any day on which school is in session". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for school day?

Close synonyms include school, schooltime. 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 school day a common word?

school day is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.