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单词 writing school
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writing schooln.

Brit. /ˈrʌɪtɪŋ skuːl/, U.S. /ˈraɪdɪŋ ˌskul/
Forms: see writing n. and school n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: writing n., school n.1
Etymology: < writing n. + school n.1
1. A school which teaches writing or handwriting; spec. a school providing an elementary education in writing, arithmetic, and sometimes other subjects, but not in Latin or Greek. historical in later use.
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writing schoola1475
rectory1536
spelling school1704
greycoat1706
rural school1734
Charter School1763
home school1770
Philanthropine1797
British school1819
side school1826
prep school1829
trade school1829
Progymnasium1833
finishing-school1836
field schoola1840
field school1846
prairie school1851
graded school1852
model school1854
Philanthropinum1856
stagiary school1861
grade school1869
middle school1870
language school1878
correspondence school1889
day continuation school1889
prep1891
Sunday school1901
farm school1903
weekend school1907
Charter School1912
folk high school1914
pre-kindergarten1922
Rabfak1924
cram-shop1926
free school1926
crammer1931
composite school1943
outward-bound1943
blackboard jungle1954
pathshala1956
Vo-Tech1956
St. Trinian's1958
juku1962
cadre school1966
telecentre1967
academy2000
academy school2000
society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [noun] > teacher of calligraphy > school of calligraphy
writing schoola1475
a1475 ( in Eng. MS Stud. (1998) 7 226 (MED) I haue ben at þe wrytyng scole and þis letty[r] ys of myne owne wrytyng.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 433/1 He goeth to the writyng scole.
1607 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 294 A writting schoole..for instructing of the youth in writing and arithmetik allanerlie.
c1685 Rules of Schools at Jesuits in Fanchurch-St. (single sheet) Such as come from the Writing-School, and have no Entrance in Latin, are to be received but three times in the Year.
1727 London Jrnl. 24 June At the new Writing School at Dunstable..Youth may..be brought to write any, or all the several Hands of Great Britain, according to the most approved Method... Also Arithmetick and Accompts..are taught.
1816 New Monthly Mag. Mar. 97/2 The Writing School, when compared with the grammar, may be considered as inferior.
1883 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 17 June 12/1 I could not read a single word... Tell Mr. Choate to go to a writing-school, and take a quarter's lessons.
1935 R. F. Seybolt Public Schools Colonial Boston (1969) viii. 68 The writing schools taught spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, and the catechism.
2009 L. Davis Rebels & Traitors (2010) lxxvii. 669 Marchamont Nedham urged that the boys..be sent to a writing school to be taught a good hand.
2. Oxford University. Also with capital initials. A room used for holding many of the university's written examinations. Later usually one of a set of such rooms. Now chiefly historical. Cf. school n.1 13b.The term was apparently originally used with reference to the Schola Metaphysicae in the Bodleian building, where many university written examinations were held until the construction of the Examination Schools in the 1870s.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > exam room
examination room1766
writing school1847
1847 Illustr. London News 3 July 9/2 Meeting of the British Association, at Oxford... Ashmolean Museum: Sect. D., Zoology and Botany. Writing School: Sect. E., Physiology.
1854 Morning Post 12 May Candidates for classical honours at the second public examination, are desired to attend at the writing school, on Monday next.
1876 T. G. Jackson New Exam. Schools Univ. Oxf. 3 The three Writing Schools..occupy..the first floor.
1901 E. English Oxf. Illustr. (New Examination Schools section) There are three Writing Schools of 114 feet, 110 feet and 90 feet in length and twelve viva voce rooms.
2000 M. G. Brock & M. C. Curthoys Hist. Univ. Oxf. VII. Pref. p. xx The new Examination Schools..were designed primarily to accommodate written examinations, as a contemporary photograph of one of the writing schools laid out with desks and papers shows.
3. An institution or establishment providing training, typically to adults, in creative or other forms of writing. Chiefly North American in early use.
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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > other types of
academya1583
military school1673
evening school1742
city farm1750
night school1780
school ship1785
neighbourhood school1842
academy school1852
writing school1928
juku1962
1928 Argus (Illinois Wesleyan Univ.) 31 May 5/3 Summer Writing School... Unusual teaching methods used in the creative writing course at Bread Loaf, Vt.
1943 Surv. Graphic Mar. 107/2 (advt.) The Magazine Institute, a private writing school owned, operated, and staffed by successful writers and editors.
1967 Spectator 14 July 60/1 The almost perfect short-story ending as taught by the writing schools.
2010 C. Foran Mordecai vii. i. 655 Richler..informed the assembled that no good novelist had ever emerged from a writing school.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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