public school

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. India,Ireland,UK
    — All such School-masters as have charge of Children and do instruct them either in Publick Schools, or Private Houses.
  2. A publicly funded and administered school; (UK, Ireland) such schools in the context of other countries. Australia,Canada,New-Zealand,Philippines,South-Africa
    — The Court voted for the erecting a Publick Schooll or Colledge in Cambridge.
  3. A college or university. obsolete
    — 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].

词形变化

public schools plural public-school alternative

词源

From public + school: originally, “public” in the sense of "communal" and contrasted with personal tutors; later, "state-run" and contrasted with private schools.
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