DAY SCHOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does day school mean? 

• DAY SCHOOL (noun)
  The noun DAY SCHOOL has 3 senses:

1. a private school taking day students only

2. a school giving instruction during the daytime

3. a school building without boarding facilities

  Familiarity information: DAY SCHOOL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAY SCHOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A private school taking day students only

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("day school" is a kind of...):

private school (a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition)

Antonym:

boarding school (a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A school giving instruction during the daytime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("day school" is a kind of...):

school (an educational institution)

Antonym:

night school (a school that holds classes in the evenings for students who cannot attend during the day)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A school building without boarding facilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("day school" is a kind of...):

school; schoolhouse (a building where young people receive education)

 Context examples 

In this manner my father was able to send home enough to keep the cottage and to pay for me at the day school of Mr. Joshua Allen, where for four years I learned all that he had to teach.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)