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BOARDING SCHOOL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does boarding school mean?
• BOARDING SCHOOL (noun)
The noun BOARDING SCHOOL has 1 sense:
1. a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught
Familiarity information: BOARDING SCHOOL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("boarding school" is a kind of...):
private school (a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition)
Antonym:
day school (a private school taking day students only)
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