night school
15
2.4
- noun
- /naɪt skuːl/
:
escuela nocturna
- After working all day, she attends night school to complete her degree.
- attend night school
And she met Jack while attending night school for this this chef sort of career.
- And she met Jack while attending night school for this this chef sort of career.
- And so I did six months of Italian classes, like night school for divorced ladies at the Y And I loved it so much.
- I finished in night school and then when I decided I wasn't going to go to college, I had like this really bad depression.
- So he started off as the mailman and he went to like night, night school.
- sweeper and a dustman and then working, going, going to night school and I was doing politics, a level, a level politics I was doing.
Examples
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Minnie continued her education at night school.
Academic text (2002) -
I've enrolled in a night school gardening course.
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What does he do at night school?
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No, l go to night school.
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You have to start out at the bottom, but if you catch on, they even pay for your night school.
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My mother became a professional through night school rather than a university path.
Blog text (15) -
I teach English at a night school for adults.
Blog text (33) -
Dad got a college degree by going to night school, but Mom and Stepfather never went past high school.
Blog text (15) -
In 1996, he founded a free night school for adults, became its principal, and began to teach literacy classes.
Blog text (18) -
Prior to his arrest, he was working full-time and attending night school.
Academic text (2001)
Antonyms
4
1.7
A school where students go during the day and go home in the evening, not a boarding school
How Formal
- US
79
3.0
15
2.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a school or program offering classes in the evening' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'night' (the evening interval) with 'school' (an educational institution); the compound simply specifies the time when the school operates. This time+institution composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words should understand the MWE.
Etymology
Night school comes from the simple idea of a school held at night so people who work during the day can study. So, it means 'classes in the evening' for adults or anyone who cannot attend during the daytime.