schooldayn.
/ˈskuːldeɪ/, U.S. /ˈskulˌdeɪ/ (in sense 1b)Brit. /ˌskuːlˈdeɪ/, U.S. /ˌskulˈdeɪ/ 1.
a. A day on which there is school. Cf. school night n. at school n.1 Compounds 5a.In quot. 1610 referring to religious instruction.
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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > set time of attendance > day on which there is school
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1567 in Trans. Shropshire Archæol. Soc. (1880) 5 9 The said School Mr dureing the tyme of his function shall at all School Dayes of the year..resort to his said Charge and Schoole at 6.
1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels 265 The Sabbath is aptly termed a schole day, wherein all Gods people must come to the Temple, which is the schoole, to learne his word their lesson.
1640 Life Anthony à Wood in Vindiciæ Antiquitatis Acad. Oxoniensis (1730) I. 443 It was on a working or School day.
1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) III. 224 The poorer Sort of Children are taught to read, write, and cast Accounts, and have Dinners every School-day besides.
c1755 in B. Ward Hist. St. Edmund's Coll. (1893) 301 At two o'clock on School Days all go to ye Study Place.
1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 101/1 During the holidays, or on a school-day.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/1 The clinic opens at nine on every school-day and also on Saturday.
2005 D. Nicholls Understudy 223 Just so long as you remember it's a Sunday night, and it's a school-day tomorrow.
b. With the: the period of the day during which school takes place; school hours.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > a calculated space of time > office, business, or school hours
school hour1581
hours of business1693
business hours1767
schoolday1840
times1847
hours1852
1840 L. Horner On Employm. Children vii. 108 Usage, almost universal in the state, has established six hours, three a. m. and three p. m., as the length of the school day.
1896 Missouri School Jrnl. Dec. 780/1 The school day closing at 1 o'clock, we have the remainder of the afternoon to ourselves.
1943 L. I. Wilder These Happy Golden Years vii. 64 Every morning Laura was anxious about the school day ahead.
1964 E. Bowen Little Girls ii. i. 85 The school day, though necessarily long, was less arduous than might have been feared.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 73 If you're a student at Austin High..you can chose to attend a meeting—during the school day—of AA.
2. In plural. The period of a person's life during which he or she attends school.
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society > education > learning > [noun] > attendance at school > time of
school hour1581
schooldays1597
year1607
school years1738
school time1754
school-tide1808
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 170 Techie and waiward was thy infancie, Thy schoele-daies frightful,..Thy prime of manhood, daring. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 203 O, is all forgot? All schooldaies friendshippe, childhood innocence?
1752 C. Jones Epist. from R. E. to Nanny 5 We..Recounted o'er old Stories past In my School-days.
1798 C. Lamb Old Familiar Faces in Blank Verse 89 In my joyful school days.
1833 T. B. Macaulay Horace Walpole in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 239 In his books there are scarcely any of those passages which, in our school days, we used to call skip.
1885 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 10 388 In his schooldays or in his grown up days.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters xiv. 143 He was one of the gimlet characters who..gain prizes in their schooldays—and are fools for the remainder of their days.
1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Sept. 553/4 Our teenagers are cast out into the world with boredom as the only memory of their ill-disciplined, under-equipped schooldays.
2006 Weight Watchers Mag. June 39/1 I felt I'd had a weight problem since my schooldays, I suppose you'd call it puppy fat that never went away.
Compounds
attributive in sense 2.
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1806 Port Folio 12 July 7/2 Who, guardian, champion, counsel, friend, To schoolday-cares her aid would lend, My tears would dry, my cause defend? My mother.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vii. ii. 94 When two school-day friends..meet at the close of their college careers.
1869 Indiana (Pa.) Democrat 1 Apr. The installment in the April No. will be read with interest..by all who love to dwell upon school day reminiscences.
1931 E. Ferber in They brought their Women (1933) 240 Sometimes..she thought of America, of New York, dimly, fondly, as one remembers a childhood game, a schoolday sweetheart.
1948 Bull. (Sydney) 10 Nov. 22/4 A large crowd of former pupils in their schoolday costumes, are playing hopscotch.
1996 Daily Tel. 13 Aug. 13/3 His schoolday legacies, he says, have been useful. ‘I can do hospital corners and iron a shirt perfectly.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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