boarding school

[bawr-ding skool]

noun

1. a school at which the students receive board and lodging during the school term (day school ).

boarding school

noun

1. a school providing living accommodation for some or all of its pupils

Word History and Origins

Origin of boarding school¹

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

When he was a child, his aunt and uncle accidentally enrolled him in a Baptist boarding school in Kentucky, thinking it was a prestigious prep school.

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Mississippi is also home to the Piney Woods School, which was founded in 1909 to educate the descendents of former slaves and is now the nation’s oldest historically black boarding school.

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For Canadian Erica Masotto, who works at Stanstead College -- a boarding school in the town of 2,824 residents -- it's "strange" to have to enter through what used to be the library's emergency exit.

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At 15, he was accepted to RIG Academy, a Swedish government-funded boarding school for aspiring athletes in Uppsala, north of Stockholm.

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DALLAS—The last time Southwest Airlines changed its boarding process, nearly 20 years ago, it launched an online boarding school to teach passengers the basics.

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Related Words

• institute 
• prep school 
• secondary school 
• seminary