boarding school
noun
: a school that provides meals and lodging
Example Sentences
He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts. She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
Recent Examples on the Web Our cookie-cutter house was on the campus of a girl’s boarding school where my father taught drama. 
Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022 One such case involved multiple instances of rape by the owner of an Islamic boarding school in West Java. Soraya Permatasari, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2022 In 2018, as a member of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, LaBelle took a tour of a cemetery at a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the 100th anniversary of the school’s closing. Bill Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2021 Paul Kline does maintenance work for Oakdale Christian Academy, a boarding school tucked in the eastern Kentucky mountains. Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 29 July 2022 Tiggy attended Heathfield School, an all-girls boarding school in Ascot, then went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland, where Princess Diana also went. Town & Country, 22 July 2022 Among the Philly victims was Kristopher Minners, who worked with second and sixth graders at Girard College, a boarding school for families with limited resources. Eliott C. Mclaughlin And Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 11 June 2022 In May 1943, the Germans raided Ms. Geulen’s boarding school (today called the Isabelle Gatti de Gamond Royal Atheneum), where a dozen Jewish children were hidden. Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022 Sallus, whose early life struggles with behavioral issues sent him to boarding school in Sedona, soon found that horses were an avenue toward a peaceful, more tranquil life. Mary Grace Grabill, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022 See More
Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022 One such case involved multiple instances of rape by the owner of an Islamic boarding school in West Java. Soraya Permatasari, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2022 In 2018, as a member of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, LaBelle took a tour of a cemetery at a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the 100th anniversary of the school’s closing. Bill Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2021 Paul Kline does maintenance work for Oakdale Christian Academy, a boarding school tucked in the eastern Kentucky mountains. Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 29 July 2022 Tiggy attended Heathfield School, an all-girls boarding school in Ascot, then went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland, where Princess Diana also went. Town & Country, 22 July 2022 Among the Philly victims was Kristopher Minners, who worked with second and sixth graders at Girard College, a boarding school for families with limited resources. Eliott C. Mclaughlin And Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 11 June 2022 In May 1943, the Germans raided Ms. Geulen’s boarding school (today called the Isabelle Gatti de Gamond Royal Atheneum), where a dozen Jewish children were hidden. Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022 Sallus, whose early life struggles with behavioral issues sent him to boarding school in Sedona, soon found that horses were an avenue toward a peaceful, more tranquil life. Mary Grace Grabill, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1665, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
boarding school
noun
: a school at which most of the students live during the school year
boarding school
noun
as in prep school
Synonyms & Similar Words
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- prep school
- preparatory school
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