Definitions for dame-school

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Spelling: [deym-skool]
IPA: /ˈdeɪmˌskul/

Dame-School is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 767 anagrams from letters in dame-school (-acdehlmoos).

Definitions for dame-school

noun

  1. a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.

Origin of dame-school

First recorded in 1810-20

Examples for dame-school

In the porch a white-headed woman, in a gold-edged blue kerchief and poppy-red skirt, was holding a dame-school.

The gods do not keep a dame-school for us here on earth, and their ways are less obvious than that.

The mistress of the dame-school at Clermont recognised in the Abbé's protégé her former pupil.

Here is his account of his first attendance at the central town-school of Dorchester, after he had left a dame-school.

The mistress of a dame-school can hear spelling-lessons; and any hedge-schoolmaster can drill boys in the multiplication-table.

We seldom see engravings in the classics of the college; these are reserved for the spelling-books of the dame-school.

The dame-school, which was about a mile from the village, was a long, low house with a thatched roof.

Word Value for dame-school
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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