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boarding schools

boarding schools is the plural 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

Questions about boarding schools

What is boarding schools the plural of?
Boarding schools is the plural of boarding school.

Words near boarding schools in the dictionary

  1. boarding passes
  2. boarding pike
  3. boarding pikes
  4. boarding school
  5. boarding school syndrome
  6. boarding schools
  7. boarding stable
  8. boarding stables
  9. boarding up
  10. boarding-house
  11. boarding-houses

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