sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (education) senior high school (US), upper secondary school (UK).
Usage notes
[edit]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
[edit]- sekolah menengah tinggi (dated)
- sekolah menengah atas
- sekolah menengah umum (dated)
- sekolah menengah umum atas (dated)