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Schooltime   /skˈultˌaɪm/   Listen
Schooltime

noun
1.
The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session.  Synonyms: school, school day.  "He didn't miss a single day of school" , "When the school day was done we would walk home together"
2.
The time of life when you are going to school.  Synonym: schooldays.






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"Schooltime" Quotes from Famous Books



... crisis. How long the days were then! I have heard that scientific people—Professor C. Darwin is their leader, unless I err—which probably I do, for names and dates I have hated from my youth up—say the days grow longer. Anyhow, whoever says it, it is quite wrong. But as the lank hours of that vast schooltime drawled on, Mr. Sandsome lost energy, drooped like a flower,—especially if the day was at all hot,—his sandy hair became dishevelled, justice became nerveless, hectic, and hasty. Finally came copybooks; and yawns and weird rumblings from Mr. Sandsome. ...
— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells

... once took me away, notwithstanding that, as a saving clause, I asserted the privilege due to a boy's first fortnight, but which, I was now told, should not avail me for having told such a falsehood about the lesson. In the following schooltime I was, of course, "put in the bill," but was not flogged, in consequence of pleading my "first fault," another and too fleeting privilege ...
— Confessions of an Etonian • I. E. M.



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