prep schooln.

Brit.

/ˈprɛp skuːl/, U.S.

/ˈprɛp ˌskul/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: preparatory school at preparatory adj. 2.

Etymology: Shortened < preparatory school at preparatory adj. 2 (originally as a graphic abbreviation). Compare prep n.², prep adj.

1. U.S. A (usually privately funded) school at which pupils are prepared for college entrance.

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1829 Christian Observer Aug. 52/1 Bangor Prep. School Bangor, M[ain]e.

1859 16th Ann. Rep. (Soc. Promotion Collegiate & Theol. Educ. West) 56 There are 50 Students in the undergraduate classes and 100 in the Prep. School.

1876 Gen. Catal. Union Theol. Seminary 70 Prin., Coll. Prep. School, Princeton, N.J., '74––.

1891 Cosmos (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Dec. 12/1 A prep school girl being told by her teacher to parse the sentence, ‘He kissed me’, consented reluctantly.

1892 Hopewell (New Jersey) Herald 20 Apr. 1/3 The base ball team will play the Princeton Prep. School on Wednesday next, at Lawrenceville.

1903 Chicago Record-Herald 7 June iii. 1/1 A crowd of nearly 4,000 university, ‘prep’ school and grammar school rooters cheered from the bleachers.

1962 J. O. Lyons College Novel in Amer. ii. 42 Brian..suffers the usual snobbery of the New England prep school boys toward Midwesterners.

2002 New Yorker 2 Dec. 73/1 This sort of thing had been a source of merriment for his classmates ever since prep school, where the joke was that his initials really stood for ‘Just for Kerry’.

2. British. A (usually privately funded) junior or primary school at which pupils are prepared for secondary or senior school.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > primary school

under-school1629

primer schoola1680

proseminary1774

primary school1792

dame-schoola1817

pettya1827

ma'am-school1838

elementary school1841

primary1851

prep school1862

minding-school1864

junior school1871

tother school1881

marm school1889

preparatory1904

terakoya1909

prep1924

prepper1956

1862 Folthorp's Brighton Directory 332 Roberts, Miss Amy, ladies' & prep. school, 59 & 61 Lansdowne pl.

1892 Times 21 July 1/5 (advt.) A travelling companion wanted, for three or four weeks in August and September, by an Oxford M.A., Head Master of a prep. school, abroad or in England.

1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner i. 14 I shall never forget when I was leaving my prep school, and Dorothy told Alfred he must tell me what she called ‘the facts of life’.

1974 Listener 14 Mar. 339/3 The prep-school language and the note of petulance nicely convey the immaturity..of this band of heroes.

2004 Independent 19 May 34/3 She taught us to read and write before we went to school and how to do hospital corners before we went to prep school.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prep school
释义	prep schooln. Brit. /ˈprɛp skuːl/, U.S. /ˈprɛp ˌskul/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: preparatory school at preparatory adj. 2. Etymology: Shortened < preparatory school at preparatory adj. 2 (originally as a graphic abbreviation). Compare prep n.², prep adj. 1. U.S. A (usually privately funded) school at which pupils are prepared for college entrance. ΚΠ 1829 Christian Observer Aug. 52/1 Bangor Prep. School Bangor, M[ain]e. 1859 16th Ann. Rep. (Soc. Promotion Collegiate & Theol. Educ. West) 56 There are 50 Students in the undergraduate classes and 100 in the Prep. School. 1876 Gen. Catal. Union Theol. Seminary 70 Prin., Coll. Prep. School, Princeton, N.J., '74––. 1891 Cosmos (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Dec. 12/1 A prep school girl being told by her teacher to parse the sentence, ‘He kissed me’, consented reluctantly. 1892 Hopewell (New Jersey) Herald 20 Apr. 1/3 The base ball team will play the Princeton Prep. School on Wednesday next, at Lawrenceville. 1903 Chicago Record-Herald 7 June iii. 1/1 A crowd of nearly 4,000 university, ‘prep’ school and grammar school rooters cheered from the bleachers. 1962 J. O. Lyons College Novel in Amer. ii. 42 Brian..suffers the usual snobbery of the New England prep school boys toward Midwesterners. 2002 New Yorker 2 Dec. 73/1 This sort of thing had been a source of merriment for his classmates ever since prep school, where the joke was that his initials really stood for ‘Just for Kerry’. 2. British. A (usually privately funded) junior or primary school at which pupils are prepared for secondary or senior school. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > primary school under-school1629 primer schoola1680 proseminary1774 primary school1792 dame-schoola1817 pettya1827 ma'am-school1838 elementary school1841 primary1851 prep school1862 minding-school1864 junior school1871 tother school1881 marm school1889 preparatory1904 terakoya1909 prep1924 prepper1956 1862 Folthorp's Brighton Directory 332 Roberts, Miss Amy, ladies' & prep. school, 59 & 61 Lansdowne pl. 1892 Times 21 July 1/5 (advt.) A travelling companion wanted, for three or four weeks in August and September, by an Oxford M.A., Head Master of a prep. school, abroad or in England. 1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner i. 14 I shall never forget when I was leaving my prep school, and Dorothy told Alfred he must tell me what she called ‘the facts of life’. 1974 Listener 14 Mar. 339/3 The prep-school language and the note of petulance nicely convey the immaturity..of this band of heroes. 2004 Independent 19 May 34/3 She taught us to read and write before we went to school and how to do hospital corners before we went to prep school. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1829
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