单词 | night school |
释义 | night schooln.ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. xv. f. xciii/2 Other could we not come by, whom we myght ferther examyne of that nyght scole. 2. An evening class or series of classes, usually for adults who work during the day; an institution providing such classes. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > other types of academya1583 military school1673 evening school1742 city farm1750 night school1780 school ship1785 neighbourhood school1842 academy school1852 writing school1928 juku1962 1780 New Jersey Jrnl. 22 Nov. 4/2 Wanted, to be bound, a Boy;..he shall be..sent to night school if required. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xi. 59 I larnt French at night school one winter. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xi, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 200 Three sermons on Sunday, a night-school for young men on Tuesday, a cottage-lecture on Thursday. 1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) i. 19 Will you go to night-school and learn? 1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 314/2 The lowly wop..is sent to a night-school to learn the principles of Americanism. 1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 at Mitchell, Reginald Joseph During his apprenticeship [he] went to night school at local technical colleges. 1999 T. Etchells Endland Stories 119 Wendy's daughter (Grief) enrolled at night school to study old Sanskrit language and quantum math. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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