school-age
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See also: school age and schoolage
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]school-age (not comparable)
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) Being of an age during which attendance at school is customary.
- Synonym: school-aged
- He's no school-age child; he's in college now.
Translations
[edit]being of an age during which attendance at school is customary
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Noun
[edit]school-age (plural school-ages)
- Alternative form of school age.
- 1879, William Ogle, “XXII. Observations on Outbreaks of Diphtheria in Rural Districts”, in William Howship Dickinson, Thomas Pickering Pick, editors, St. George's Hospital Reports, volume 9, London: J. & A. Churchil, page 716:
- One of the gloomy features of village-life is the absence of young men and young women from the scene. So soon as children have passed school-age, they are drafted off in large numbers into the towns for service or other employment.
Further reading
[edit]- “school-age”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.