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school of the air

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.20 in modern English

Syllables
school of the air
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
1
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia.

Australian usage; Informal

Etymology

From the previous use of shortwave radio.

Usage

Inflected Forms

schools of the air (plural)

Questions

What does school of the air mean?
Any of the correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia.
Where does school of the air come from?
From the previous use of shortwave radio.

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