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

With her teenage son attending boarding school in New York, and the loss of both her parents, she was increasingly lonely at home; and floundering professionally.

From BBC

My parents sent me to boarding school in Pennsylvania in ’73 — I ditched the entire time on a train into New York to go to CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City.

From Los Angeles Times

With her brothers sent away to boarding school, Katharine's childhood was a lonely one.

From BBC

At 13 she went away to boarding school, attending the elite Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where she “ate and ate and ate,” then Yale.

From Los Angeles Times

Raveling left home at 14 to attend a boarding school.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• institute 
• prep school 
• secondary school 
• seminary