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

Example sentences from the Web for primary school

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