boarding schoolnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbɔː.dɪŋ ˌskuːl/us/ˈbɔːr.dɪŋ ˌskuːl/a school where students live and study
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Types of school
- alma mater
- business school
- charter school
- coed
- coeducational
- college
- comprehensive school
- convent school
- faith school
- fee-paying
- finishing school
- graduate school
- high school
- independent school
- infant
- junior school
- madrasa
- military academy
- parochial school
- single-sex
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Examples from literature
- A girl's boarding school obtained a free afternoon to enjoy the spectacle.
- Here also are several flourishing military boarding schools and a seminary for girls.
- In all boarding schools there is a room near the Infirmary, where they keep the medicines.
- Mr. Edwards concluded that at a boarding school Steve would be under a stricter discipline and would profit by it.
- She had an idea that Yale was a sort of higher-grade boarding school, it seemed.