boarding school
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of boarding school
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Llandovery College, which was founded in the mid-19th Century, is a mixed day and boarding school, which had around 215 pupils at the time of its last Estyn inspection.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
She attended Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclusive boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, and went to Barnard College in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
He conceived the social experiment based on a combination of his curiosity about people, the influence of “Lord of the Flies” and “Robinson Crusoe,” and his boarding school experience.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Mr. Ansari—the son of an Iranian ambassador and a distant cousin of Farah Pahlavi, the shah’s widow—was sent off to boarding school in the U.K. in June 1978, “which was fairly good timing.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
It opened to a classroom, much like the ones I had sat in for endless hours at Indian boarding school.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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