high school

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Inherited from Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”), equivalent to high + school. Cognate with Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”).

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hoërskool — secondary school
• Arabic: مَدْرَسَة ثَانَوِيَّة (madrasa ṯānawiyya) — secondary school
• Arabic: ثانوي (ṯānawi, sānawi) — secondary school
• Armenian: միջնակարգ դպրոց (miǰnakarg dprocʻ) — secondary school
• Azerbaijani: ali məktəb — secondary school
• Azerbaijani: lise — secondary school
• Bulgarian: гимназия (gimnazija) — secondary school
• Bulgarian: средно училище (sredno učilište) — secondary school
• Bulgarian: средно (sredno) — secondary school
• Chinese Mandarin: 高級中學 /高级中学 (gāojí zhōngxué) — secondary school
• Chinese Mandarin: 高中 (gāozhōng) — secondary school
• Chinese Mandarin: 中學 /中学 (zhōngxué) — secondary school
• Czech: střední škola — secondary school
• Danish: gymnasium — secondary school
• Dutch: middelbare school — secondary school
• Esperanto: gimnazio — secondary school
• Esperanto: mezlernejo — secondary school
• Esperanto: liceo — secondary school
• Estonian: keskkool — secondary school
• Estonian: gümnaasium — secondary school
• Finnish: lukio — secondary school
• French: école secondaire — secondary school
• French: lycée — secondary school
• French: collège — secondary school
• Georgian: უმაღლესი სკოლა (umaɣlesi sḳola) — secondary school
• German: Oberschule — secondary school
• German: Mittelschule — secondary school
• Greek: γυμνάσιο (gymnásio) — secondary school
• Greek: λύκειο (lýkeio) — secondary school
• Haitian Creole: lekòl segondè — secondary school
• Hebrew: בֵּית סֵפֶר תִּיכוֹן (bēt séfer tichón) — secondary school
• Hungarian: középiskola — secondary school
• Hungarian: gimnázium — secondary school
• Icelandic: menntaskóli — secondary school
• Ido: gimnazio — secondary school
• Indonesian: sekolah menengah — secondary school
• Indonesian: sekolah menengah atas — secondary school
• Indonesian: sekolah menengah umum — secondary school
• Irish: ardscoil — secondary school
• Italian: liceo — secondary school
• Italian: ginnasio — secondary school
• Italian: liceo scientifico — secondary school
• Italian: liceo classico — secondary school
• Japanese: 高校 (kōkō) — secondary school
• Japanese: 高等学校 (kōtō gakkō) — secondary school
• Khmer: សាលាជាន់ខ្ពស់ (sala juan khpous) — secondary school
• Khmer: វិទ្យាល័យ (vi tyea lai) — secondary school
• Korean: 고등학교 (godeunghakgyo) — secondary school
• Ladino: kolej — secondary school
• Ladino: lise — secondary school
• Lithuanian: gimnazija — secondary school
• Macedonian: средно училиште (sredno učilište) — secondary school
• Macedonian: гимназија (gimnazija) — secondary school
• Malay: sekolah tinggi — secondary school
• Malay: sekolah menengah — secondary school
• Norwegian Bokmål: videregående skole — secondary school
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vidaregåande skole — secondary school
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vidaregåande skule — secondary school
• Persian: دبیرستان (dabirestân) — secondary school
• Persian: لیسه (lise) — secondary school
• Plautdietsch: Huachschool — secondary school
• Polish: szkoła średnia — secondary school
• Portuguese: ensino médio — secondary school
• Portuguese: secundário — secondary school
• Portuguese: secundária — secondary school
• Portuguese: liceu — secondary school
• Romanian: liceu — secondary school
• Romanian: școală secundară — secondary school
• Romanian: gimnaziu — secondary school
• Romanian: școală medie — secondary school
• Russian: сре́дняя шко́ла (srédnjaja škóla) — secondary school
• Scottish Gaelic: àrd-sgoil — secondary school
• Serbo-Croatian: gimnazija — secondary school
• Serbo-Croatian: srednja škola — secondary school
• Serbo-Croatian: средња школа — secondary school
• Slovak: stredná škola — secondary school
• Spanish: secundaria — secondary school
• Spanish: preparatoria — secondary school
• Spanish: bachillerato — secondary school
• Swedish: high school — secondary school
• Swedish: gymnasie — secondary school
• Swedish: gymnasieskola — secondary school
• Tagalog: hay-iskul — secondary school
• Tagalog: hayskul — secondary school
• Tajik: мактаби миёна (maktab-i miyona) — secondary school
• Thai: ไฮสกูล (hai-sàgoon) — secondary school
• Turkish: lise — secondary school
• Vietnamese: trường trung học phổ thông — secondary school
• Volapük: julilüv — secondary school
• Yiddish: מיטלשול (mitlshul) — secondary school
• Yiddish: גימנאַזיע (gimnazye) — secondary school
• Yiddish: הײַסקול (hayskul) — secondary school