public school

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n. 公立中小学

发音

AU

词形变化

public schools 复数

别名

public-school

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British boarding school.

    印度 爱尔兰 英国

    All such School-masters as have charge of Children and do instruct them either in Publick Schools, or Private Houses.

    No person shall keepe any schoole... except it be in some publike [public] or free Grammer Schoole, or in some such noblemans... or gentlemans... house as are not recusants.

  2. 2.

    A publicly funded and administered school; (UK, Ireland) such schools in the context of other countries.

    澳大利亚 加拿大 新西兰 南非 美国

    Every school under the management of the school board of a parish shall be deemed a parish school, and every school under the management of the school board of a burgh shall be deemed a burgh school, and all such schools are hereby declared to be public schools within the meaning of this Act.

  3. 3.

    A college or university.

    废旧

    Thither [to Douai] he went, where after a yeres great diligence and many excercises done booth in house and publike scholes, he proceded bachilier of diuinitie [bachelor of divinity].

    ante''' 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604), sig. A3v Ile haue them fill the publike schooles with skill. Wherewith the students shal be brauely clad.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 6

school gymnasium secondary school lycee lyceum middle school

下位词 1

charter school

词源

From public + school: originally, “public” in the sense of "communal" and contrasted with personal tutors; later, "state-run" and contrasted with private schools.

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