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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 rule class
  2. home ruler
  3. home rulers
  4. home run
  5. home runs
  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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