sekolah menengah tinggi
Appearance
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of sekolah menengah (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) + tinggi (“high”), calque from Japanese 高等中学校 (kōtōchūgakkō, literally “higher secondary (middle) school”). The post-war Japanese term is 高等学校 (kōtōgakkō).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (education, historical) senior high school (US), upper secondary school (UK), abbreviated SMT.
- Hampir semua tipe dari sekolah umum dan kejuruan level menengah atas disatukan dan dinamai ulang menjadi Sekolah Menengah Tinggi (SMT, dalam bahasa lndonesia) atau Kotto Chu Gakko (dalam bahasa Jepang).[1] ― Almost all upper secondary education institution were merged and renamed as higher secondary school or 高等中學校.
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 lanjutan tingkat atas (dated)
- sekolah menengah atas
- sekolah menengah umum (dated)
- sekolah menengah umum atas (dated)