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School day

noun

Any day on which school is in session.

The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session. Synonyms: school, schooltime. "He didn't miss a single day of school" , "When the school day was done we would walk home together"

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"School day" Quotes from Famous Books

... I began to come back to my former life, which seemed already so far back, and to think of a little, common school day, and what you were all doing. They have had the forenoon recitations, I thought; they have had dinner, and now,—where can that girl be? I exclaimed, as I looked up and saw that the sun had left one side of the ravine in the shade, and that I must hasten to find my way out. But the farther ...

— The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories • Lydia Maria Child

... hearing, the Vice-Chancellor said, that any scheme of education, without religion, would be worse than a mockery. The parties afterwards agreed, that the masters and mistresses should be members of the Church of England; that every school day the master should give religious instruction, during one hour, to all the scholars, such religious instruction to be confined to the reading and explanation of the Scriptures; that on every Lord's day he should give ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster