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Meaning of public school

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

public school

Pronunciation:

noun

Definitions

  1. Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British boarding school

  2. A college or university

  3. (formerly Scottish) A publicly funded and administered school; such schools in the context of other countries