Definitions for boarding school
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. boarding schoolnoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. boarding schoolnoun

   A school which provides board and lodging as well as tuition, students going home at weekends or between terms

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boarding-schoolnoun

   A school where the scholars live with the teacher.

   Etymology: from board and school.

   A blockhead, with melodious voice,
   In boarding-schools can have his choice. Jonathan Swift.

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1. Boarding school

   A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now extend across many countries, their function and ethos varies greatly. Traditionally, pupils stayed at the school for the length of the term; some schools facilitate returning home every weekend, and some welcome day pupils. Some are for either boys or girls while others are co-educational. In the United Kingdom, which has a rich history of such schools, many independent (private) schools offer boarding, but likewise so do a few dozen state schools, many of which serve children from remote areas. In the United States, most boarding schools cover grades seven or nine through grade twelve—the high school years. Some American boarding schools offer a post-graduate year of study to help students prepare for college entrance. In some times and places boarding schools are the most elite educational option (as in the classic UK rivals, Eton and Harrow, which have produced many prime ministers), whereas in other contexts, they serve as places to segregate children deemed a problem to their parents or wider society. Notoriously, Canada and the United States tried to assimilate indigenous children in the Canadian Indian residential school system and American Indian boarding schools respectively. Some function essentially as orphanages, e.g. the G.I. Rossolimo Boarding School Number 49 in Russia. Tens of millions of rural children are now educated at boarding schools in China. Therapeutic boarding schools offer treatment for psychological difficulties. Military academies provide strict discipline. Education for children with special needs has a long association with boarding; see, for example, Deaf education and Council of Schools and Services for the Blind. Some boarding schools offer an immersion into democratic education, such as Summerhill School. Others are determinedly international, such as the United World Colleges.

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1. boarding school

   A boarding school is a residential educational institution where students live on campus either in dormitories or hostels, away from their homes, while receiving their formal education. Classes, meals, sports, and other activities are typically conducted on the school's premises. These institutions can cater to students of various age groups, from primary levels through high school.

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1. Boarding school

   Boarding school is a school where some or all people study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals. Some boarding schools also have day students who attend the institution by day and return off-campus to their families in the evenings. Many independent schools in the Commonwealth of Nations are boarding schools. Boarding school pupils normally return home during the school holidays and, often, weekends, but in some cultures may spend the majority of their childhood and adolescent life away from their families. In the United States, boarding schools comprise various grades, most commonly grades seven or nine through grade twelve - the high school years. Specialized military schools also feature military education and training. Some American boarding schools offer a post-graduate year of study in order to help students prepare for college entrance, most commonly to assimilate foreign students to American culture and academics before college. In the former Soviet Union similar schools were introduced; these sometimes are known as Internat-schools. They varied in their organization. Some schools were a type of specialized school with a specific focus in a particular field or fields such as mathematics, physics, language, science, sports, etc. Other schools were associated with orphanages after which all children enrolled in Internat-school automatically. Also, separate boarding schools were established for children with special needs. General schools offered "extended stay" programs featuring cheap meals for children and preventing them from coming home too early before parents were back from work. In post-soviet countries, concept of boarding school differs from country to country.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of boarding school in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of boarding school in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of boarding school in a Sentence

1. Adib Zalkapli:

   It looks very likely that Najib will face the full force of the law, just last week nobody would have thought that this posh boarding school boy would be rear ended by his old political headmaster.

2. Rosemary Putunoi:

   Our lives have improved so much, we share the dividend among our members and use the rest to educate our 21 girls in boarding school.

3. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio:

   I don't want us to have a president that we constantly have to be explaining to our kids, 'Look, I know that's what the president did, but you shouldn't do that.' I don't want that, donald Trump -- he might have grown up the way he did, with a lot of money and going to boarding school. I can tell you this: Where I grew up, if someone keeps punching people in the face, eventually someone's going to have to stand up and punch them back.

4. Tony Weeresinghe:

   We wanted to build a boarding school where we would send our own children, not just a hut. That was our goal. And to do this, you need a war chest.

5. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio:

   Donald Trump -- he might have grown up the way he did, with a lot of money and going to boarding school. I can tell you this: Where I grew up, if someone keeps punching people in the face, eventually someone's going to have to stand up and punch them back.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=boarding school
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Boarding_School
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=boarding school
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_School
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=boarding school