day schooln.
/ˈdeɪ skuːl/, U.S. /ˈdeɪ ˌskul/ 1. A school at which there is no provision for boarding pupils; a non-residential school, typically a fee-paying one.Often contrasted with boarding school n.
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day school1718
externat1853
1718 M. Malard Proselytish Hercules against Myst. of Iniquity 77 Many more Books made, by other Proselytes, which the French League suppress as much as they can..; and forbid secretly the introducing of them in the French Boarding and Day Schools by one of the League.
1798 P. Wakefield Refl. Present Condition of Female Sex iii. 56 Day-schools, if preserved from an improper mixture of children, are preferable in many respects to boarding-schools, as they afford opportunities for maternal instruction.
1889 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 39 It was decided that he should be sent to a day-school.
1897 Academy 11 Sept. 200/1 The man from the boarding-school should realise that the great day-school, if properly administered, can and does turn out English gentlemen remarkably like himself.
1941 Life 20 Oct. 97/1 The boarding school serves, as the day school can never adequately serve, as a laboratory for research and training in the subtle art of democratic living.
2013 Sunday Times (Nexis) 2 June (Mag.) 10 By the time we were ready to send off our youngest son, Caspar, there [sc. to Eton], she couldn't bear losing him too, so he ended up going to day school instead.
2. A school for the general instruction of children on weekdays, as distinguished from a Sunday school; a school giving classes during the day, as distinguished from an evening or night school.
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1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 5 A scanty subsistance, which was not much enlarg'd by my mother's keeping a little day-school for the girls in her neighbourhood.
1788 A. Jardine Lett. from Barbary, France, &c. II. vii. 75 You should think of encouraging your evening, your Sunday and day schools.
1838 Penny Cycl. XXI. 41 42 Number Attending Day or evening schools only..Both day or evening and Sunday schools.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 42/1 They found many thousands who went to neither day nor Sunday schools.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. viii. 123 She maintained a very small day-school for young ladies of proportionate dimensions.
1937 E. Bennett Interview 7 Jan. in C. L. Perdue et al. Weevils in Wheat (1976) 29 Everybudy went night school 'an day school.
1981 Amer. Speech 56 3 Orthodox Jews are typically strict Sabbath observers who maintain their own religious day schools and yeshivas.
2012 H. C. Mears Sunday School changes Everything ii. vi. 162 Junior highers are no different in Sunday School than they are in day school.
3. Chiefly British. A short educational course, typically taking place over a single day, on a particular subject or topic.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of
summer session1594
evening class1762
summer school1793
training course1822
shop class1844
elective1850
optional1855
night class1870
correspondence class1876
Chautauqua1884
correspondence course1902
gut1902
holiday course1906
shop1912
pud1917
training seminar1917
film school1929
day school1931
refresher1939
farm shop1941
survey course1941
weekend course1944
crash programme1947
sandwich course1955
thick sandwich1962
module1966
bird course1975
1931 Plebs Apr. 96 T. A. Jackson is to lecture at a Day School to be held in the Elysium, Swansea, on Easter Sunday.
1988 Archaeol. Ireland 2 84/2 On 17 September there is a day school on Greek archaeology.
1999 Victorian Aug. 16/3 This day school at Priory Gardens will look at why the Victorians built their churches as they did.
2013 Birmingham Mail (Nexis) 21 Mar. 9 Weoley Castle will hold a day school on Saturday. The event will explore the history, genealogy, archaeology and artefacts of this hidden Birmingham gem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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