school-age

See also: school age and schoolage

English

Alternative forms

• school age

Adjective

school-age (not comparable)

1. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Being of an age during which attendance at school is customary.

   Synonym: school-aged

   He's no school-age child; he's in college now.

Translations

being of an age during which attendance at school is customary

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kouluikäinen (fi)
• German: im Schulalter (literally “in school age”), schulpflichtig (de) (literally “required to attend school”)
• Hungarian: iskoláskorú (hu)
• Polish: w wieku szkolnym (literally “in school age”)
• Russian: шко́льного во́зраста (škólʹnovo vózrasta, literally “of school age”)
• Ukrainian: шкільно́го ві́ку (škilʹnóho víku, literally “of school age”)

Noun

school-age (plural school-ages)

1. Alternative form of school age.
   • 1879, William Ogle, “XXII. Observations on Outbreaks of Diphtheria in Rural Districts”, in William Howship Dickinson, Thomas Pickering Pick, editors, St. George's Hospital Reports, volume 9, London: J. & A. Churchil, page 716:

     One of the gloomy features of village-life is the absence of young men and young women from the scene. So soon as children have passed school-age, they are drafted off in large numbers into the towns for service or other employment.

Further reading

• “school-age”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.