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schooldays

noun

schooldays is a noun meaning “The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L-D-A-Y-S, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does schooldays mean?

noun

  1. 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.

  2. 2

    plural of schoolday (a form of schoolday)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of schooldays

  • school days

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is schooldays?

Schooldays appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th 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).

Schooldays in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense period of one's life when one attends school:

LanguageWords
GermanSchulzeit

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.