schooldays

English

Alternative forms

• school days

Noun

schooldays

1. plural of schoolday

Noun

schooldays (uncountable)

1. The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.

   I can hardly remember my schooldays now that I have reached middle age.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 164:

     Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft
     I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight
     The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch
     To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both,
     I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]

Translations

period of one's life when one attends school

• Finnish: kouluaika
• German: Schulzeit (de) f

Anagrams

• day schools