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Meaning of "Schoolies Week" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SCHOOLIES WEEK

Schoolies Week  [ˈskuːliːz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCHOOLIES WEEK

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Schoolies Week is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SCHOOLIES WEEK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Schoolies Week

Schoolies week

Schoolies or schoolies week refers to the Australian tradition of high-school graduates having week-long holidays following the end of their final exams in late November and early December. "Toolies" or "Droolies" refers to older revellers who participate in Schoolies week but are not high-school graduates. "Foolies" or "pre-schoolies" refers to younger adolescents, who participate in Schoolies week but have not yet graduated from high school. Schoolies week is seen as a final party with schoolmates before they head their separate ways.

Definition of Schoolies Week in the English dictionary

The definition of Schoolies Week in the dictionary is a week when large numbers of school leavers gather together for a holiday away from home after the end of their final exams.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCHOOLIES WEEK


Achilles
əˈkɪliːz
Antilles
ænˈtɪliːz
Belize
bəˈliːz
caules
ˈkɔːliːz
Congolese
ˌkɒŋɡəˈliːz
fleurs-de-lis
ˌflɜːdəˈliːz
Heracles
ˈhɛrəˌkliːz
Hercules
ˈhɜːkjʊˌliːz
lees
liːz
legalese
ˌliːɡəˈliːz
Nepalese
ˌnɛpəˈliːz
please
pliːz
Ramillies
ˈræmɪliːz
Senegalese
ˌsɛnɪɡəˈliːz
Sinhalese
ˌsɪnhəˈliːz
sleaze
sliːz
tales
ˈteɪliːz
Thales
ˈθeɪliːz
Togolese
ˌtəʊɡəˈliːz
valise
vəˈliːz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCHOOLIES WEEK

Schools

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCHOOLIES WEEK

Ancient Greek
cheek
creek
geek
Great Week
Greek
hide-and-seek
Holy Week
keek
leek
meek
midweek
Passion Week
peek
seek
sleek
steek
turn the other cheek
week
Whit Week

Synonyms and antonyms of Schoolies Week in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Schoolies Week» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCHOOLIES WEEK

Find out the translation of Schoolies Week to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Schoolies Week from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Schoolies Week» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Schoolies周
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Schoolies semana
570 millions of speakers

English

Schoolies Week
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Schoolies वीक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Schoolies أسبوع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Schoolies Неделя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Schoolies Week
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্কুলের ছাত্রী সপ্তাহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

schoolies semaine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Minggu Sekolah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schoo Woche
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Schooliesウィーク
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Schoolies 주
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sekolah Minggu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

học sinh tốt Tuần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாடசாலைகள் வாரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शाळा आठवडा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Okullar Haftası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Schoolies Week
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

schoolies tydzień
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Schoolies Тиждень
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

schoolies Week
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

schoolies εβδομάδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Schoolies Week
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Schoolies vecka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

schoolies Week
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Schoolies Week

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCHOOLIES WEEK»

The term «Schoolies Week» is normally little used and occupies the 144.115 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCHOOLIES WEEK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Schoolies Week

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCHOOLIES WEEK»

Discover the use of Schoolies Week in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Schoolies Week and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Managing Tourism and Hospitality Services: Theory and ...
better manage Schoolies Week. However, there is a need to balance these interventions against the 'common ownership' reasons for existence of Schoolies Week. This chapter then examines the history and development of Schoolies Week, ...
B. Prideaux, Gianna Moscardo, Eric Laws, 2006
2
Destination Marketing
'Schoolies' week is a major annual tourism phenomenon in Australia involving students who have completed Year 12, the final year at high school (see www. schooliesweek.gov.au). Each year in November (traditionally a low season for Gold ...
Steven Pike, 2012
3
Embodied Geographies
Hilary P.M.Winchester, Pauline M.McGuirk and Kathryn Everett (Australia) Schoolies Week on the Australian Gold Coast is interpreted in this chapter as a rite of passage from youth to adulthood. It occurs in a highly constrained period of space ...
Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather, 2005
4
Articles on Tourism in Australia, Including: Schoolies Week, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
5
Jesus Loves You. . . This I Know
Red Frog Redemption In 1997, my friend Andy Gourley saw what was going on during Schoolies Week. As a youth pastor, he was crushed to see so much pain in so many young people. While on vacation, Andy visited one of his friends at ...
Craig Gross, Jason Harper, 2011
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English in Year 11
In her opinion piece published in The Bugle on April 7 this year, Michele Bailey enthusiastically discusses the growing trend of alternative activities to the traditional schoolies week in Queensland, namely working with charitable missions in ...
Elizabeth Tulloh, Melanie Napthine, Robert Beardwood, 2010
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Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives and Practices
This is certainly true of episodes of group 'swarming' and one- off events such as Schoolies Week. These, too, can be disruptive of communities and neighbourhoods. They also demand our attention from the point of view of community safety ...
Adam Sutton, Adrian Cherney, Rob White, 2013
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Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World
Schoolies Week was for the participants a time when normative practices and performance codes were in abeyance. The freedom of anonymity was important for students who felt that away from home 'we're allowed to trash the place' ...
Hilary Winchester, Lily Kong, Kevin Dunn, 2013
9
Persuasive Language in Media Texts
presenting Schoolies Week has been around long enough for the local authorities to get their act together and manage it better. If more police patrols are needed in some areas, just to provide a presence or to evict troublemakers, then they ...
Iris Breuer, Melanie Napthine, Rosemary O'Shea, 2008
10
Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk
The Context of Schoolies Week Schoolies Week is a month-long graduation festival celebrated by Year 12 school leavers from all around Australia. It takes place after the Year 12 Leaving Certificate between mid-November and ...
Keith Gilbert, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCHOOLIES WEEK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Schoolies Week is used in the context of the following news items.
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VIDEO: Dad explodes when girl, 16, asks to go to Schoolies
WOULD you let your 16-year-old daughter work to promote nightclubs during Schoolies Week? This dad, confronted with the idea while enjoying a beer in a hot ... «The Sunshine Coast Daily, Apr 15»
2
Schoolies week: a rite of passage
Yes, it's true. Schoolies week will probably see your angelic child drink themselves into a stupor, sample some pills, shack up with a schoolmate and wake up ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 14»
3
Man on Surfers Paradise dead during Schoolies week after being …
A man has died after being found unconscious in a pool on Surfers Paradise as Schoolies celebrations continue on the Gold Coast. A Queensland police ... «Daily Mail, Nov 14»
4
Schoolies 2014 begins in Bali what could possibly go wrong? First …
In Kuta, Bali, overnight thousands of teenagers celebrated the unofficial beginning of the overseas Schoolies Week at nightclubs and bars throughout the party ... «Daily Mail, Nov 14»
5
Shocking ... Dozens of photos like this one are flooding social media …
SHOCKING photographs of Schoolies Week celebrations on the Gold Coast are flooding social media, exposing the rude, nude and crude pastimes of the ... «NEWS.com.au, Nov 14»
6
A schoolie left bloodied after an alleged assault in Surfers Paradise …
A 'TOOLIE' was left drenched in blood at Schoolies Week after she was ... A 'toolie' is defined on Urban Dictionary as “someone who goes to Schoolies but isn't ... «NEWS.com.au, Nov 14»
7
Broken bones and sore heads: on the road in schoolies week
There were a lot of sore heads as a steady rainfall blanketed Surfers Paradise on Saturday morning. But as rooms were emptied of empty Red Bull cans, plastic ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 13»
8
Bernard Tomic enjoys nightclub lapdance amid Schoolies week
Bernard Tomic enjoys nightclub lapdance amid Schoolies week celebrations ... at a Gold Coast nightclub as he continued helping celebrate Schoolies week. «NEWS.com.au, Nov 13»
9
Exposed: The filthy reality of Schoolies Week
FLASHING, boozing, sex and STDs. Welcome to Schoolies 2013. This is where the class ends and the wild times begin. As the final school bell rings, thousands ... «NEWS.com.au, Nov 13»
10
Schoolies week: Prices double Christmas rates on Gold Coast
Many of the 36,000 young visitors will book accommodation for the three-week party, lasting until December 8, through schoolies.com and 1800schoolies. «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 13»

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