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I wonder what is the British equivalent of 'coed'?Thank you.

Nona the brit · Accepted Answer

I'm not even too sure what a coed is - I think it means a girl who is studying at a mixed *** school/college? If that is it, we don't have a word for it. Seems odd to me that the US needs one!

Phuongninhbao · Answer

I have the same meaning as Nona the Brit, about coed. It's an abbreviation of co~education . It belongs to a text of Streamline. It's BrE.

Phuong Ninh

Danyoo · Answer

Actually there are two meanings for co-ed. The first is what nona described. The second is what Phuong described which the Cambridge dic defines as:

co-educational http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=14708&ph=on
adjective (INFORMAL co-ed)
having male and female students being taught together in the same school or college rather than separately:
Girls tend to do better academically in single-*** schools than in co-educational ones.

This term is quite common in the U.S. There can co-ed classes and even co-ed dormitaries.

TeacherBrian · Answer

ItasanI wonder what is the British equivalent of 'coed'?
Thank you.

Coed colloquial, three meanings:---
(1) n. BrE. a co-educational school, i.e. both male and female students.
(2) n. AmE. a female student at a co-educational institution
(3) adj. co-educational.

In Britain we don't a special word for female students at a co-educational school. We call them students or female students, or sometimes we call them 'girls'!

Itasan · Answer

Thank you very much, everybody.

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Itasan · Answer

Thank you, danyoo. Sorry but would you teach me how to do that? Thanks.

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