Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - comprehensive

(comprehensives) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant. The Rough Guide to Nepal is a comprehensive guide to the region. = complete ? partial ADJ 2. In Britain, a comprehensive is a state school in which children of all abilities are taught together. ...Birmingham’s inner-city comprehensives... She taught French at Cheam Comprehensive in South London. N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES • Comprehensive is also an adjective. He left comprehensive school at the age of 16. ADJ: ADJ n