public school
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public school
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From public + school: originally, “public” in the sense of "communal" and contrasted with personal tutors; later, "state-run" and contrasted with private schools.
noun public schools · public-school
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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.
All such School-masters as have charge of Children and do instruct them either in Publick Schools, or Private Houses.
Similar: boarding school, private school
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A publicly funded and administered school; (UK, Ireland) such schools in the context of other countries.
The Court voted for the erecting a Publick Schooll or Colledge in Cambridge.
Similar: comprehensive school, free school, state school
- A college or university. Thither [to Douai] he went, where after a yeres great diligence and many excercises done booth in house and publike scholes, he proceded bachilier of diuinitie [bachelor of divinity].
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noun (in the context of Britain) private grammar school; boarding school
| Deutsch | Public School |
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noun publicly administered school
| Português | escola pública |
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| Français | école publique |
| Deutsch | öffentliche Schule |
| Ελληνικά | δημόσιο σχολείο dimósio scholeío |
| Română | școală publică |
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