BOARDING SCHOOL Synonyms: 30 Similar Words

boarding school

noun

Definition of boarding school

as in prep school

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Recent Examples of boarding school His mother was placed with a Mormon foster family in 1952 under the church’s student placement program; his father, from Broken Arrow, also went through boarding school, joined the Marines, and met his mother in San Diego. — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2026 After a brief stint at a boarding school in Kent, Audrey Hepburn returned to the Netherlands in 1939 and, together with her mother, settled in Arnhem and then in Velp, with her grandfather. — Daria Egidi, Vanity Fair, 23 Aug. 2026 Baniewicz was hired by Bishop Miege in 2023 after serving nearly 14 years as president of Maur Hill-Mount Academy, a college preparatory boarding school in Atchison. — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026 Senegal's founding president, Leopold Sedar Senghor, named the boarding school on Goree Island in 1985 after Mariama Ba, the country’s most famous female author. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boarding school

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Noun

Prior to starting at Eton, George attended Lambrook School, a private prep school near Windsor, alongside his siblings, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

— Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
The eight-episode show follows rower Teagan Tao (played by Miku Martineau), who joins an elite prep school’s all-boys crew team after her life is upended by a family scandal.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of prep school

Noun

In 2011, the school became Bethesda Academy, a college preparatory school for boys in grades 6-12.

— Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026
This new spinoff of The Handmaid’s Tale follows Agnews (Chase Infiniti of One Battle After Another) and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), young women at Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

Definition of preparatory school

Noun

His high school, college and NFL jerseys hang in the hallway of the only school in town (his 2019 graduating class of 23 people is considered big here).

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
About 7% of high school athletes go on to compete in any sport in college, according to NCAA participation data, and less than 2% receive an academic scholarship.

— Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of high school

Noun

New York City's public school students are scheduled return to the classroom next week.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
New York — New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of public school

Noun

At an elementary school, Salomon picks up three trash bins full of cafeteria food refuse, including what appears to be leftover Sloppy Joe meat in a clear bag swarmed by flies.

— Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Bush was visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida, when Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed him that planes had struck the World Trade Center.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of elementary school

Noun

Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of common school

Noun

Seventy percent of Gen Z women who started playing sports continued through the end of high or secondary school, compared with 62% of Baby Boomers.

— Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.

— Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

The schools will experience a temporary (one-year) ban from using artificial intelligence for all students through eighth grade, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced last week.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
His high school, college and NFL jerseys hang in the hallway of the only school in town (his 2019 graduating class of 23 people is considered big here).

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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