(UK, education, historical) A kind of selective secondary school in the United Kingdom that existed between 1945 and 1976, having one quarter of the places directly funded by central government, while
(UK, education, historical) A kind of selective secondary school in the United Kingdom that existed between 1945 and 1976, having one quarter of the places directly funded by central government, while the remainder attracted fees, some paid by a Local Education Authority and some by the pupils' parents or guardians.
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(chiefly, _, UK) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.
(UK, Ireland, India) Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British .
(archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
(UK, Ireland, education, historical) The division of state-funded secondary education into three types of school: grammar school, secondary technical school, and secondary modern school; used between 1945 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. Performance in the 11-plus examination determined which type of school a student would attend.
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