public school

noun

Meaning

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
A college or university
(formerly Scottish) A publicly funded and administered school; such schools in the context of other countries

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Related words

board school(English)comprehensive school(English)big school(English)combined school(English)college(English)convent school(English)normal school(English)secondary modern(English)

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