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Dear Teachers,1. My daughter's homecoming dance is coming up.- I've checked some dictionaries, but I really can't understand the meaning of "homecoming dance".2. She's a freshman. She's also an "A B" student.- What does "A B" student mean?Thanks a lot to Teachers, Stevenukd.

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

I believe the origin of the homecoming dance is that "homecoming" would be an event when alumni of a school would come back for a visi. Often it would be the last home football game or the season, or something like that. Then, the evening of the homecoming, there would be a homecoming dance. It's usually in the early fall, a few weeks into the school year. Sometimes, there's a little beauty pageant and one of the girls is named "Homecoming Queen." This is an American tradition, but I have no idea if it exists elsewhere.

The grades she gets are all A's and B's. I'm not sure what marking system you are used to, but an A is a top grade, a B is a good grade, a C is a middle grade, a D is barely passing, and an F is failing. (There is no E.)

Khoff · Answer

Another possible meaning for "she is an A B student" is that she is working towards a Bachelor of Arts degree, which in some intstitutions is called a B.A. and in some is called an A.B. (I think it depends on whether the apbbreviation comes from the English or the Latin.)  Grammar Geek's explanation is probably more likely - it's hard to tell without more context.

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