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School year   /skul jɪr/   Listen
School year

noun
1.
The period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying.  Synonym: academic year.






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"School year" Quotes from Famous Books



... as yet no mention had been made as to the disposal of her charges, Molly and Dolly. Certainly, she felt that having been burdened with their cares during the long summer she was entitled to a few days' rest before the beginning of a new school year. ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond

... securing an appreciation of literature is the memorization of fine passages of prose and poetry. Pupils from the primary grades upward should be required to memorize systematically several lines of prose and poetry every week of the school year. During childhood the mind is at its most impressionable stage, and what is committed to memory is then retained longer and more accurately than what is memorized at any later period. The passages should be carefully ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature • Ontario Ministry of Education

... because of such unsatisfactory conduct or want of capacity, and such notification shall discharge him from the service: Provided, That the probation of an employee in the Indian-school service shall terminate at the end of the school year in which he is appointed: And provided further, That the time which an employee has actually served as substitute in parts of the service where substitutes are authorized shall be counted as part of the probationary period of his regular ...
— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland

... The balance of that school year was a season of hard study for Joel. It was not in his nature to remain long despondent over the loss of the Goodwin scholarship, and a week after the winter term commenced he was as cheerful and light-hearted as ever. But his failure served ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... possessed a talent for making friends and an ability to see not only her own way clearly, but to smooth the pathway of those weaker than herself that was little short of marvelous. She knew, too, that before the end of the school year Grace's remarkable personality was sure to make itself ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... couldn't be helped, you see. It's the last week of our school year, and there are so many little things that have to be attended to. It's simply ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole

... seem possible that April is almost here. Ernest has been gone nearly a school year. I am beginning to realize that I sha'n't see much more ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... Constructive Studies present no sectarian dogmas and are used by churches and schools of all denominational affiliations. In the grammar-and high-school years more books are provided than there are years in which to study them, each book representing a school year's work. Local conditions, and the preference of the Director of Education or the teacher of the class will be the guide in choosing the courses desired, remembering that in the preceding list the approximate ...
— Religious Education in the Family • Henry F. Cope

... in her usual harum-scarum fashion, and the conversation became general. How had the girls finished their high-school year? And how had the boys managed to stay a whole year at Yale without being asked to leave for the good ...
— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose



Words linked to "School year" :   academic term, year, academic session, trimester, school term, session, quarter, semester



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