sekolah menengah kejuruan
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From sekolah menengah (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) + kejuruan (“skill”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- (education) senior high school (US), upper secondary school (UK) level (ISCED Level 3) vocational school, abbreviated SMK.
Usage notes edit
The term was derived from ambachtsschool (the Netherland) (now voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs).
Synonyms edit
- sekolah ambah (obsolete)
- kolej teknikal (Standard Malay)
Hypernyms edit
Further reading edit
- “sekolah menengah kejuruan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.