military school

noun

1. military academy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of military school¹

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80

Example Sentences

After all, his father sent him to military school.

From Salon

Born in the Bronx to an Army doctor and a registered nurse, Bauman went to military school and moved to Hollywood just before he turned 18.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump's father sent Donald to military school because he was spoiled and out of control.

From Salon

In the early ’50s, Vargas Llosa’s father dispatched him to the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, a military school in Lima, because he thought it would “cure” the boy of his interest in literature.

From Los Angeles Times

“It was an extremely traumatic experience which in many ways marked the end of my childhood,” Vargas Llosa told the Paris Review decades later of his military school experience, “the rediscovery of my country as a violent society, filled with bitterness, made up of social, cultural, and racial factions in complete opposition and caught up in sometimes ferocious battle.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• boarding school 
• institute 
• prep school 
• secondary school 
• seminary