schoolday
/ˈskulˌdeɪ/noun
schoolday is a noun meaning “A day during which the public schools are open, usually synonymous with weekday during the school year” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L-D-A-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of schoolday is schooldays.
What does schoolday mean?
noun
- 1
A day during which the public schools are open, usually synonymous with weekday during the school year.
In modern China, Sunday is not usually a schoolday except around major holidays.
- 2
The part of a day when students attend school.
I couldn't contact my child during the schoolday because of the school's no-cellphone policy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce schoolday?
- US /ˈskulˌdeɪ/
Schoolday has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of schoolday
- schooldays plural
- school day
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is schoolday?
Schoolday appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Schoolday in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the day when school is open:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Schultag |
| Spanish | jornada escolar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does schoolday come from?
From school + day.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).