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 has a Roman Catholic and a Protestant church, ruins of a feudal castle, a Latin school, and a monument to Gutenberg.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

He entered the Boston Latin school in 1738, and probably commenced his military career, which he afterwards followed near the commencement of the French and Indian war, when about twenty-five years old.

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

Three years later he became rector of the Latin school at Düsseldorf.

From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin

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