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nonschool

nonschool adjective: not school, or not directly related to school.

Adjective

nonschool (not comparable)

  1. Not school, or not directly related to school
    • Children should spend a healthy amount of time in nonschool activities.
    • At a different workplace, a woman who employs a gardener worries when, on nonschool days, the gardener's "9-year-old daughter works alongside her."2009 January 11, Randy Cohen, “Performance Review”, in New York Times

Noun

nonschool (plural nonschools)

  1. A building or organization that is not a school.

Forms of nonschool

Adjective
alternative formnon-school
Noun
pluralnonschools

Origin of nonschool

From non- + school.

Questions about nonschool

What does nonschool mean?
Nonschool means not school, or not directly related to school.
What part of speech is nonschool?
Nonschool can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonschool in the dictionary

  1. nonscholar
  2. nonscholarly
  3. nonscholars
  4. nonscholarship
  5. nonscholastic
  6. nonschool
  7. nonschools
  8. nonscience
  9. nonsciences
  10. nonscientific
  11. nonscientifically

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