PRIVATE SCHOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does private school mean? 

• PRIVATE SCHOOL (noun)
  The noun PRIVATE SCHOOL has 1 sense:

1. a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition

  Familiarity information: PRIVATE SCHOOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIVATE SCHOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("private school" is a kind of...):

school (an educational institution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "private school"):

seminary (a private place of education for the young)

day school (a private school taking day students only)

boarding school (a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught)

 Context examples 

As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never had a flat salary, which looking back, seems remarkable—I worked completely on commission for 16 years. (I started my website within that period, in the last six of the 16 years, and did both to get the site going—you can’t start a new business and quit your day job.) I was the sole provider for my two daughters, put them through the New York City private school system, then college, and paid all their student loans over the course of seven years myself, with no financial help from their father.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)