prep school

noun

Examples of prep school in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The glamour and lucrative contracts were gone, but Mr. Simpson sent his two children to prep school and college. Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024 In 2018, Sasha graduated from The Harvey School, a private college prep school in Westchester County, New York. Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024 But Gostisbehere, for example, had to leave South Florida for a prep school in Connecticut at age 16. Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024 Brown describes his studies first at a prep school in Bray, just south of Dublin, and then at Shrewsbury, a private boarding school in England—a ferry and a train ride away. Josephine Quinn, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024 Parise prepared for his return by working out, skating hard and playing a few adult league games with some of his former high school teammates from Shattuck-St. Mary’s in Minnesota, a prep school internationally known for its hockey development program. Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2024 In the retro movie, set in the early 1970s at the fictional prep school Barton Academy, Paul Giamatti’s grumpy teacher Paul Hunham is left to look after students who have no place to go over the Christmas break. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024 He got kicked out of Harvard and the only job he’s had since is as an adjunct classics teacher at a 1970 New England prep school. Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024 The prep school kept the objects, further intertwining the two institutions — though their decisions about the collection would eventually divide them. Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1829, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of prep school was in 1829

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“Prep school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prep%20school. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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