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UK
/ˌɛlɪmˈɛntəɹi/
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[ US /ˌɛɫəˈmɛntɝɹi, ˌɛɫəˈmɛntɹi, ˌɛɫəˈmɛntʃɹi/ ]
[ US /ˌɛɫəˈmɛntɝɹi, ˌɛɫəˈmɛntɹi, ˌɛɫəˈmɛntʃɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education
the elementary grades
elementary teachers -
of or being the essential or basic part
a basal reader
an elementary need for love and nurturing -
easy and not involved or complicated
a simple game
found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
elementary, my dear Watson
an elementary problem in statistics
How To Use elementary In A Sentence
- It all starts when Chuck is asked to teach an after-school program in cartooning to elementary school kids†¦ and it isn†™ t long before he learns the kids can be more hyperactive than his doodles! Archie Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
- I was talking to a mom today whose daughter's elementary teacher said she was afraid that her daughter had "selective mutism. Canard - French Word-A-Day
- Children enter elementary school at the age of five, don't they?
- I know enough about this issue to know that ESEA is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the main federal law authorizing federal financial assistance to schools whose most recent instantiation is also known as No Child Left Behind. Matthew Yglesias » The Pointlessness of Reading Bills
- Through the rest of elementary school we had sleepovers every night.
- Joshi that students gave similar and what she described as accurate accounts of what occurred last month at Markham Elementary School in Oakland. Kansas City Star: Front Page
- On Thursday, police say, 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira talked his way into his former elementary school in a working-class western outskirt of Rio de Janeiro and opened fire with at least one of two revolvers he carried. Brazil Mourns the 12 Killed by Gunman
- Its perceptual configurations have been thought to have a special relevance to the emergence of formal artistic qualities which cannot be reduced to a measurable aggregate of more elementary constituents.
- Seeing that China's construction of market economy has its elementary scale, we should enact law of bankruptcy so as to bring the law into full effect.
- Some indeed were revelling in the formulae of algebraical infinity and of twenty-four-dimensional space, like a child in the elementary class dealing with the four rules of arithmetic.