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high school noun
n [C] Definition
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(informal high) a school in the US for children aged from 14 to 18, or from 16 to 18 if there is also a junior high schoolDiane goes to Santa Ana High.
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in the UK and Australia, sometimes used in the names of schools for children aged from 11 to 18(Definition of high school noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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