SCHOOL DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does school day mean? 

• SCHOOL DAY (noun)
  The noun SCHOOL DAY has 2 senses:

1. any day on which school is in session

2. the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

  Familiarity information: SCHOOL DAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOL DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any day on which school is in session

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

go to bed early because tomorrow is a school day

Hypernyms ("school day" is a kind of...):

day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

school; school day; schooltime

Context example:

when the school day was done we would walk home together

Hypernyms ("school day" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "school day"):

study hall (a period of time during the school day that is set aside for study)

 Context examples 

I remembered hazily the physics of my school days, while the last few months had given me practical experience with mechanical purchases.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But, as I have recorded in the narrative of my school days, his veneration for the Doctor was unbounded; and there is a subtlety of perception in real attachment, even when it is borne towards man by one of the lower animals, which leaves the highest intellect behind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I knew who had done all this, by its seeming to have quietly done itself; and I should have known in a moment who had arranged my neglected books in the old order of my school days, even if I had supposed Agnes to be miles away, instead of seeing her busy with them, and smiling at the disorder into which they had fallen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She looked so quiet and good, and reminded me so strongly of my airy fresh school days at Canterbury, and the sodden, smoky, stupid wretch I had been the other night, that, nobody being by, I yielded to my self-reproach and shame, and—in short, made a fool of myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)