COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL


Meaning of COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL in English

( also infml comprehensive ) n

( in Britain ) a large state secondary school for boys and girls of all abilities aged 11 or over. Comprehensive schools were introduced in the 1960s to replace the system of dividing children between more academic grammar schools and less academic secondary modern schools.

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.