From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishboarding schoolˈboarding school noun [countable] SESa school where students live as well as study → day school
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boarding school• H., a boarding school for students in the seventh to ninth grades run by the Legionaries.• So what happened was my parents came to me with a brochure of a boarding school.• He became the campus wit for a growing contingent of former boarding school chaps who arrived at Harvard the same autumn.• She got a first at Girton and taught, for most of her life, in a girls' boarding school. 