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normal school

noun

  1. (formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.


Normal School

noun

  1. (in France, and formerly England, the US, and Canada) a school or institution for training teachers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of normal school1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Word History and Origins

Origin of normal school1

C19: from French École Normale: the first French school so named was intended as a model for similar institutions
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Example Sentences

Those students would be un-enrolled and then re-enrolled into their normal school.

Which is particularly welcome to many families with kids who have been kept from normal school, activities, and socializing for the past 12 months.

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Michelle Obama is fixed on keeping her daughters on a normal school schedule.

She is a country school-ma'am, and is to be graduated this month in the Normal School in Mayville, where you are visiting.

At the same time he stated that government would not persist in their proposal to found a normal school.

We make the profession of teacher a stop-gap for girls between the normal school and matrimony.

A little reflection will satisfy us how great a departure this would be from the just idea of the Normal School.

At the age of 18 she was graduated from the Salem Normal School.

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