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home-school

home-school is the alternative form of homeschool.

Meaning of homeschool

Verb

homeschool (third-person singular simple present homeschools, present participle homeschooling, simple past and past participle homeschooled)

  1. (transitive) To educate children at home, that is, at a private domestic place, in lieu of sending them to a public school or private educational institution.
    • I chose to homeschool my children.
  2. (intransitive) To be educated at home.
    • I only started regular school when I was ten; before that I homeschooled.

See all 4 meanings of homeschool

Forms of home-school

Verb
third-person singular presenthome-schools
present participlehome-schooling
past participlehome-schooled
pasthome-schooled
Noun
pluralhome-schools

Questions about home-school

What is home-school the alternative form of?
Home-school is the alternative form of homeschool.

Words near home-school in the dictionary

  1. home-killed
  2. home-made
  3. home-making
  4. home-port
  5. home-sat
  6. home-school
  7. home-schooled
  8. home-schooler
  9. home-schoolers
  10. home-schooling
  11. home-schools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home-school (page history and authors); homeschool (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.

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