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home_school
home school
See also: homeschool
English
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Verb
home school (third-person singular simple present home schools, present participle home schooling, simple past and past participle home schooled)
- 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 home school my children.
Translations
educate children at home
Noun
home school (plural home schools)
- A school within a private domestic place, rather than in a public facility or private institution.
- (US, dated) A boarding school
- 1904, William Parker McKee, “Dean's Letter”, in Frances Shimer Quarterly, page 30:
- I do not know of any home school for girls, East or West, which has a more thoroughly up-to-date equipment for heating its buildings […] .
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Translations
school within private domestic place
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boarding school — see boarding school