primary school
noun
a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
Origin of primary school
First recorded in 1795–1805
Words nearby primary school
Example sentences from the Web for primary school
There seemed to be no disagreement on the question of educating boys and girls of primary-school age together.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents |Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
British Dictionary definitions for primary school
primary school
noun
(in Britain) a school for children below the age of 11. It is usually divided into an infant and a junior section
(in the US and Canada) a school equivalent to the first three or four grades of elementary school, sometimes including a kindergarten