schooldays

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noun

The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.

“I can hardly remember my schooldays now that I have reached middle age.”

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Meanings

noun

alternative school days

  1. pluralplural of schoolday
nounschooldays (uncountable)

alternative school days

  1. uncountableThe period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.

    I can hardly remember my schooldays now that I have reached middle age.

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    Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both, I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]

    c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 164

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe time of life when you are going to school

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Translations

Finnish kouluaika
  • kouluaikaperiod of one's life when one attends school
German Schulzeit
  • Schulzeitperiod of one's life when one attends school
Polish szkolne dni
  • szkolne dniperiod of one's life when one attends school
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Chicago

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