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Definition of Boarding school
1. Noun. A private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught.
Definition of Boarding school
1. Noun. A school which provides board and lodging as well as tuition, students going home at weekends or between terms ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boarding School
Literary usage of Boarding school
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"... till now a German boarding school, has become the provincial mother-house for
Holland, with the novitiate and a higher Dutch school establishment, ..."
2. Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams (1910)
"CHAPTER III BOARDING-SCHOOL IDEALS .as As my three older sisters had already
attended the seminary at Rockford, of which my father was trustee, ..."
3. The Baptist Missionary Magazine by Executive Committee, Baptist General Convention, American Baptist Missionary Union, Board of Managers (1847)
"It would no longer be a boarding school for pure Burmese children, ... Burmese
boarding school—Baptisms.— In the letter of Mr. Howard of May 17, ..."
4. The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1894)
"Why the boarding-school entered into and strengthened ecclesiastical ... Effects of
the boarding-school on the young man.—Gaps in his experience, ..."
5. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"CHAPTER XII Peregrine is sent to a Boarding-school—Becomes remarkable for his
Genius and Ambition The Commodore understanding her determination, ..."
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