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  • 51School district — School School, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc?lu, L. schola, Gr. ? leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as ?, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See {Scheme}.] 1. A… …

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  • 52School and university in literature — School in literature= *Thomas Bailey Aldrich: The Story of a Bad Boy [http://classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1269/] *Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak *Christine Anlauff: Good morning, Lehnitz *F. Anstey: Vice Versa *Louis Auchincloss: The… …

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  • 53Boarding — can refer to:*Temporarily residing somewhere, as in a boarding school or boarding house *Boarding (attack), a naval term for the forcible attempt at capturing another naval vessel *Boarding (ice hockey) *Boarding (horses) *Boarding (transport)… …

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  • 54boarding — (n.) 1530s, supplying of meals, food and lodging, from BOARD (Cf. board) (n.1) in its extended sense of food (via notion of table ). Boarding school is from 1670s; boarding house attested from 1728 …

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  • 55agricultural boarding school — live in school that teaches agricultural studies and skills …

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  • 56School story — The school story is a genre of fiction, basic to much of the children s literature of the twentieth century. The boarding school is a very common setting, with its plot advantages of the absence of parents and a relatively closed society. The… …

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  • 57school — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. See school, assemblage. II Educational institution Nouns 1. school, academy, university, alma mater, college, multiversity, land grant college, cluster college, junior college, community college,… …

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  • 58Boarding house — A boarding house, also known as a rooming house (mainly in the United States) or a lodging house , is a house (often a family home) in which people on vacation or lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended… …

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  • 59school — I n 1. educational institution, primary school, grammar school, secondary school, high school; institution of higher education or learning, college, university, multiversity, Both Derog. phrontistery or phron tisterion; private school, boarding… …

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  • 60School — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:School >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 school school academy university alma mater college seminary Lyceum Sgm: N 1 institute institute institution Sgm: N 1 palaestra palaestra …

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