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homeschool

homeschool verb: 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.

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.
    • Both work -- Jenny as a freelance writer from home, Marc full-time-plus as a civil engineer with a long commute. Jenny also takes care of their four sons, ages 20 months to 9 years, and homeschools the two oldest.2007 October 30, Terry Cettina, “How to even the score on housework, kid duty”, in CNN
  2. (intransitive) To be educated at home.
    • I only started regular school when I was ten; before that I homeschooled.

Noun

homeschool (countable and uncountable, plural homeschools)

  1. A school within a private domestic place, rather than in a public facility or private institution.
    • All traditional school programs incorporate some sort of recess or outdoor time, and a homeschool schedule should be no different.2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN
    • He was so insanely proud of the job his wife and daughter were doing in homeschool, studying ancient Egypt and other Black history.2025 July 23, Andrew Lawrence, “Malcolm-Jamal Warner was a TV big brother and an off-screen gentleman. He’ll be forever missed”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &...
  2. (US, dated) Synonym of boarding school.
    Synonyms:
    boarding school

Synonyms of homeschool

Forms of homeschool

Verb
third-person singular presenthomeschools
present participlehomeschooling
past participlehomeschooled
pasthomeschooled
alternative formhome school
alternative formhome-school
Noun
pluralhomeschools

Past tense of homeschool: homeschooled

Words formed from homeschool

Questions about homeschool

What does homeschool mean?
Homeschool means 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.
What part of speech is homeschool?
Homeschool can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of homeschool?
The past tense of homeschool is homeschooled.

Words near homeschool in the dictionary

  1. homesat
  2. homescape
  3. homescapes
  4. homescar
  5. homescedasticity
  6. homeschool
  7. homeschooled
  8. homeschooler
  9. homeschoolers
  10. homeschooling
  11. homeschools

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