Latin school

American  

noun

1. a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.

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Etymology

Origin of Latin school

First recorded in 1645–55

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Latin school

In his earlier job at Boston Latin school, Emery sent along scores of young men to Ivy League schools.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

It also possesses a Latin school, an arsenal, and a modern prison built on the isolated-cell principle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

As an administrator also he showed ability, and the foundation of a Latin school and several churches in Batavia is to be ascribed to him.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Little Peter should be what Peer felt HE was not, an educated man, so the lad was sent to the Latin school.

From The Fisher Girl by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

Thomas Amory, son of the former, was born in Boston April 23, 1722, and entered the Latin school in 1735, and graduated at Harvard College in 1741.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.