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A school for training teachers, especially in mainland Europe and North America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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a two-year school for training elementary teachers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: teachers college
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: junior college
Calque of French école normale, so called because the norms of pedagogy are taught there.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
師範學校 /师范学校
(shīfàn xuéxiào)
— school for training teachers
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Dutch:
normaalschool
— school for training teachers
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Dutch:
kweekschool
— school for training teachers
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Finnish:
normaalikoulu
— school for training teachers
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French:
école normale
— school for training teachers
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German:
Normalschule
— school for training teachers
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Hungarian:
tanárképző/tanítóképző főiskola
— school for training teachers
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Indonesian:
institut keguruan dan ilmu pendidikan
— school for training teachers
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Japanese:
師範学校
— school for training teachers
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Romanian:
școală normală
— school for training teachers
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Spanish:
escuela normal
— school for training teachers
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Tagalog:
paaralang normal
— school for training teachers