normal school
noun
(formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high-school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.
Compare
teachers college.
Origin of normal school
First recorded in 1825–35
Words nearby normal school
Example sentences from the Web for normal school
Such, then, in brief, are some of our normal-school attributes.
A normal-school pupil, Mr. Holmesland, had the arithmetic class that morning.
What Happened to Inger Johanne |Dikken ZwilgmeyerGentlemen to whom it falls to deliver annually Normal-school addresses would do well to take a lesson from them.
The College, the Market, and the Court |Caroline H. Dall
British Dictionary definitions for normal school
Normal School
noun
(in France, and formerly England, the US, and Canada) a school or institution for training teachers
Word Origin for Normal School
C19: from French
École Normale: the first French school so named was intended as a model for similar institutions