residential school

[ rez-i-den-shuhl skool, rez-i-den-shuhl skool ]

noun

1. a boarding school, especially one for delinquent or disabled children or youth:

   They recommended placing our daughter in a residential school for troubled teens.

2. (formerly) one of a network of boarding schools in Canada for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students, typically founded and operated by a church or religious order and eventually receiving partial or full funding by the federal government. Compare hostel school ( def 1 ), Indian boarding school ( def ).

residential school

noun

1. (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements

Word History and Origins

Origin of residential school¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

But the child in the residential school knows little of all this, has little occasion to know.

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One day, when we were walking through a residential school, we were struck by the spectacle of a poor epileptic.

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