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PREP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prep mean?
• PREP (noun)
The noun PREP has 1 sense:
1. preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
Familiarity information: PREP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
homework; prep; preparation
Hypernyms ("prep" is a kind of...):
school assignment; schoolwork (a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher)
Holonyms ("prep" is a part of...):
didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)
Context examples
One of my most vivid memories is of coming back west from prep school and later from college at Christmas time.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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