boarding school
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈbɔrdɪŋ skuːl/
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internado
- His daughter now had returned and gone off to a boarding school in California.
- attend boarding school
- send to boarding school
- children at boarding schools
This takes place at a boarding school in the mountains of Virginia.
- This takes place at a boarding school in the mountains of Virginia.
- But I was then in boarding school for the last year of her life.
- She gets sent to Stuart Hall Boarding School, which is down in the South.
- I just started boarding school as well, which was terrible timing.
- My dad taught at this boys boarding school in New Hampshire.
- And we projected that text from the apology about boarding schools onto the outside wall.
- Because my boarding school was like a cross between prison and the Army.
- So because the boarding school was for troubled kids, who's going to believe us?
- The youngest is determined to go to boarding school.
- So when I came to London, I was like, I did boarding school in London.
- She actually writes about them in the The Vindication about how bad boarding schools are.
- And then when my behaviour deteriorated and then I ended up in care, in homes, in boarding schools.
- There's there was the the last boarding school was was the worst.
- It's a, it's a fault of policies of boarding schools of, of removals, things like that.
Examples
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So I grew up in a small town in Kansas and I went to an all boys Catholic boarding school in western Kansas.
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Rookford is a boarding school, Miss Cathcart.
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But I was then in boarding school for the last year of her life.
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I was sent away to boarding school when I was eight.
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I went to an English boarding school.
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This takes place at a boarding school in the mountains of Virginia.
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In many respects, America needs the traditional boarding school and its mission more than ever.
Academic text (1996) -
When the heat became too strong, I was sent to boarding school in France to cool my heels.
Fiction book (1997) -
Just last month, through the A Better Chance program, I attended a boarding school in Virginia, Woodbury Forest.
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This takes place at a boarding school in the mountains of Virginia.
Antonyms
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1.7
A school where students go during the day and go home in the evening, not a boarding school
How Residential
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a school where students live as well as study' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'board' (to live and take meals at a place) with 'school' (an educational institution). This noun–noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Boarding school comes from the old use of the word board, which meant meals and a room to stay in. Students who 'boarded' lived and ate at the school, so a boarding school is one where students live as well as study.