sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of sekolah lanjutan (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) +‎ tingkat (“grade”) +‎ atas (“upper”) from either

• Calque from Japanese 高等 (kōtō, “higher”) +‎ 中学校 (chūgakkō, “secondary (middle) school”). The post-war Japanese term is 高等学校 (kōtōgakkō). Doublet of sekolah menengah tinggi.
• Calque from Chinese 高級中學／高级中学 (gāojí zhōngxué, “senior high school”).

Noun

sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas

1. (education) senior high school (US), upper secondary school (UK).

Usage notes

The terms for general upper secondary education are sekolah menengah tinggi (1942-1946), sekolah menengah umum atas (1946-1950), sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas (1963-1967), sekolah menengah umum (1994-2004), and sekolah menengah atas (1950-1961, 1968-1993, 2004-now).

Synonyms

• sekolah menengah tinggi (dated)
• sekolah menengah atas
• sekolah menengah umum (dated)
• sekolah menengah umum atas (dated)