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prep school noun
n [C] Definition
in Britain, a private school (= a school paid for by parents not the government) for children, especially boys, between the ages of 7 and 13, who will then usually go to public school and in the US, a private school for children over the age of 11, which prepares them to go to college
(Definition of prep school noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Synonyms and related words:
- alma mater
- boarding school
- co-educational
- college
- comprehensive (school)
- convent school
- crammer
- faith school
- finishing school
- grammar school
- infant school
- junior school
- lycée
- madrasa
- middle school
- parochial school
- preparatory school
- public school n (EXPENSIVE SCHOOL)
- public school n (FREE SCHOOL)
- school
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