boarding school

Noun

Meaning

a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught

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Alternative names

boarding-school

Synonyms

residential school association institute conservatory seminary college school extension naval pension boarding boarding house public school summer school prep school
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Antonyms

day school loss opposition prejudice repeal orison
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Hypernyms

private school

Examples

A boarding school of excellence, the Claude Bernard college, opened in 2011. Source: Internet

A female teacher has won a sex bias claim after a job at a top boarding school was given to a man who had never taught maths but had a 'strong handshake'. Source: Internet

A friend of Mycroft, there seems to be some underlying tension between these characters which is later manipulated by Enola and Tewkesbury to secure her escape from the boarding school. Source: Internet

After time spent at a boarding school in Thonon to prepare for the retest, which he passed, he returned to Paris in 1949. Source: Internet

Carey, p. 137 *Short Measure is a novel set in a British boarding school. Source: Internet

At the new semi-religious boarding school, boys learned rural trades like carpentry and farming, while girls were taught sewing and similar domestic skills of the period. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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