PREPARATORY SCHOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preparatory school mean? 

• PREPARATORY SCHOOL (noun)
  The noun PREPARATORY SCHOOL has 1 sense:

1. a private secondary school

  Familiarity information: PREPARATORY SCHOOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPARATORY SCHOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A private secondary school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

prep school; preparatory school

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

Gymnasium; lycee; lyceum; middle school; secondary school (a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preparatory school"):

choir school; schola cantorum (a school that is part of a cathedral or monastery where boys with singing ability can receive a general education)

 Context examples 

The Priory is, without exception, the best and most select preparatory school in England.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I must inform you, gentlemen, that the Priory is a preparatory school, of which I am the founder and principal.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)