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Elementary

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi

Definitions

  1. Ellipsis of elementary school.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
  2. A supernatural being associated with the elements.
    countable

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Examples

“At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest.”
“He was my dentist. My mom took me to him back in elementary and junior high.”
“The demon (or elementary) of the South-West wind was particularly dreaded, as being the gini of fever and madness.”
“[…] the spiritual man is either translated like⟳ Enoch and Elias to the higher state, or falls down lower than an elementary again […]”
“But, in Africa these became definite in their Egyptian Types, by means of which we can follow⟳ their development from the elementaries of Chaos and Space into Celestial Intelligencers […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

elementary algebra elementary cellular automaton elementary charge elementary equivalence elementary function elementary matrix

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