PRIVATE SCHOOL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("private school" is a kind of...):

school (an educational institution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "private school"):

seminary (a private place of education for the young)

day school (a private school taking day students only)

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

Credits