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boarding-school

boarding-school is the alternative form of boarding school.

Meaning of boarding school

Noun

boarding school (countable and uncountable, plural boarding schools)

  1. A residential school, where the students are housed on-site (the school provides board and lodging as well as education), sometimes involuntarily, typically at a pre-collegiate level.
    • […] a pan-Indian movement based on the successes of the Black Power Movement […] had its roots [in] the 1870-1933 Native American boarding school experiences of their parents and grandparents. It was in these boarding schools where Native language, culture and ceremony would be beaten out of the...2007, Joy Porter, Place and Native American Indian History and Culture, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 86

Forms of boarding-school

pluralboarding-schools

Questions about boarding-school

What is boarding-school the alternative form of?
Boarding-school is the alternative form of boarding school.

Words near boarding-school in the dictionary

  1. boarding up
  2. boarding-house
  3. boarding-houses
  4. boarding-master
  5. boarding-masters
  6. boarding-school
  7. boardinghouse
  8. boardinghouse reach
  9. boardinghouse reaches
  10. boardinghouses
  11. boardings

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