| 单词 | private school |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprivate school private school n. a fee-paying school run for the personal profit of the proprietors; a school which does not receive state funding and is not subject to the state education authority; (in quot. 1857) a preparatory school (cf. sense C. 6). ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > private school adventure school1832 private school1857 private1925 hagwon1988 15741Priuate schoole [see sense A. 2b(a)]. 1676 Cramond Kirk Session II. 5 Nov. Considereing how much the public schoole at the church is prejudged by privat schooles. 1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 66 I was the only child of a man..who indulged me..with..paternal affection; and when I was six years old, sent me to a private school, where I stayed till my age was doubled. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 67 A private school, where he went when he was nine years old. 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. iii. 547 I don't think it is snobbishness... It's a throw back to primitive life in a private school. 1997 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 29 June 24/1 Everdell..is dean of humanities at St. Ann's, a private school in Brooklyn, where he has taught history for 25 years. < as lemmas |
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