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TRAINING SCHOOL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does training school mean?
• TRAINING SCHOOL (noun)
The noun TRAINING SCHOOL has 2 senses:
1. a school providing practical vocational and technical training
2. correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
Familiarity information: TRAINING SCHOOL used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A school providing practical vocational and technical training
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("training school" is a kind of...):
school (an educational institution)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
reform school; reformatory; training school
Hypernyms ("training school" is a kind of...):
correctional institution (a penal institution maintained by the government)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "training school"):
borstal (formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison)
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