Word.ws English Dictionary

charm school

charm school noun: a school where lessons in etiquette and social skills are taught, often as brief courses for children.

Noun

charm school (plural charm schools)

  1. (dated) A school where lessons in etiquette and social skills are taught, often as brief courses for children.
    • From there, it was a short step to running a charm school, where she taught the children of the powerful how to bow, curtsey and tenderly ladle punch.2007 March 11, Margalit Fox, “Marjabelle Y. Stewart, 82, White-Gloved Author, Dies”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2008

Synonyms of charm school

Forms of charm school

pluralcharm schools

Questions about charm school

What does charm school mean?
Charm school means a school where lessons in etiquette and social skills are taught, often as brief courses for children.
What part of speech is charm school?
Charm school is a noun.
What is the plural of charm school?
The plural of charm school is charm schools.

Words near charm school in the dictionary

  1. charm offensive
  2. charm offensives
  3. charm pricing
  4. charm quark
  5. charm quarks
  6. charm school
  7. charm schools
  8. charm the birds from the trees
  9. charm the birds out of the trees
  10. charm up
  11. charm work

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: charm school (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “charm school.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/charm_school. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.