Schooldays

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The period of one's life spent as a pupil attending school, from early childhood through adolescence
2. The years a person spends studying at school, often remembered fondly in later life
3. The stretch of time during which someone is enrolled as a student at a school

Etymology: "Schooldays" is the plural of "schoolday", a compound formed from "school" and "day". Both parts are old English words in their own right: "school" comes from Old English "scōl", borrowed from Latin "schola" (itself from Greek "skholē", meaning leisure), and "day" is native Germanic. Joining them produced a plain, transparent term for the period of a person's education, and the plural form is used to mean a whole span of years rather than a single day.

Synonyms: school years, student days