Meanings
nounsenior high (countable and uncountable, plural senior highs)
plural senior highs · alternative sen high · alternative sen. high
- abbreviationcountableellipsisinformaluncountableeducationEllipsis of senior high school.
In senior high, I wanted to become a paleontologist and spend my days in digging up dinosaurs.
1985 April 7, L[yon] Sprague De Camp, “About Men: Talking to Ghosts”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
Broader
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