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boarding school

[ bawr-ding skool ]

noun

  1. a school at which the students receive board and lodging during the school term ( day school ).


boarding school

noun

  1. a school providing living accommodation for some or all of its pupils


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boarding school1

First recorded in 1670–80

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Example Sentences

Saa is now navigating a new life in America as an incognito boarding school student.

He squints slightly, has a squared jaw, and speaks in British-accented English, the product of a boarding school education.

Like Donal, he requested to go to boarding school to escape his homelife; also like Donal, he was initially miserable there.

Cameron is the 19th British prime minister to have attended the elite boarding school on the banks of the River Thames.

The Barcelona youth compound is called La Masia, a country house boarding school for 300 boys.

Mrs. Barford, as a country heiress, had received a boarding-school education, and was very superior to Letty in every respect.

Immediately after their arrival, he and his brother Nicholas were sent to a boarding-school.

His schooling began at the age of nine, but the boy played truant so frequently that he was sent to boarding-school in Avignon.

He was a delicate child, and was sent as a day-scholar to a boarding-school near his home, kept by Mr William Littlewood.

"I got my wife out of the back window of a boarding school, second story," said Pemberton.

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