Definitions for public-school

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Public-School is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 553 anagrams from letters in public-school (-bcchilloopsu).

Definitions for public-school

noun

1. (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
2. (in England) any of a number of endowed secondary boarding schools that prepare students chiefly for the universities or for public service.

Origin of public-school

First recorded in 1570-80

Examples for public-school

Stephen Knolls School is a public school in a Maryland suburb of Washington DC.

He went to public school until the 7th grade, and then attended Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

About 70 civilians, little children as well as adults, were hiding in a deep cellar of public school No. 51.

So much for the influence of the American public school, where physiology is taught.

That had been at the public school meet in the New Los Angeles.

This work must be completed in public school, industrial school, and college.

There are 3.4 million public school teachers in the United States.

public school Teachers are informed that anybody else's is correct.

In fact, the public school costs for middle school can be as high as the most expensive private schools in the country.

No such boy should have been sent to an English public school as it was in my day.