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An educational institution that operates independently of government administration or public funding, typically financed through tuition, private donations, or endowments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: education
Examples
- 1953, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, Issue 39, page 218, The Roman Catholic schools comprise the largest group of private schools in Australia. On the basis of the figures available, approximately 222,000 children, or 76 per cent. of the total in private schools, are educated in Roman Catholic schools.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: school
Narrower terms: seminary, day school, boarding school
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Akan:
ankorɛankorɛ sukuu
— fee-charging school
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Armenian:
մասնավոր դպրոց
(masnavor dprocʻ)
— fee-charging school
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Chinese Mandarin:
私立學校 /私立学校
(sīlì xuéxiào)
— fee-charging school
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Esperanto:
privata lernejo
— fee-charging school
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Finnish:
yksityiskoulu
— fee-charging school
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French:
école privée
— fee-charging school
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German:
Privatschule
— fee-charging school
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Greek:
ιδιωτικό σχολείο
(idiotikó scholeío)
— fee-charging school
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Hiligaynon:
eskwela-pribado
— fee-charging school
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Hindi:
प्राइवेट स्कूल
(prāiveṭ skūl)
— fee-charging school
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Hungarian:
magániskola
— fee-charging school
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Japanese:
私立学校
(shiritsu gakkō)
— fee-charging school
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Kazakh:
жеке мектеп
(jeke mektep)
— fee-charging school
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Khmer:
សាលាឯកជន
(sala aek jon)
— fee-charging school
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Luxembourgish:
Privatschoul
— fee-charging school
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Norwegian Bokmål:
privatskole
— fee-charging school
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
privatskole
— fee-charging school
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
privatskule
— fee-charging school
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Plautdietsch:
Priewautschool
— fee-charging school
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Polish:
szkoła prywatna
— fee-charging school
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Portuguese:
escola particular
— fee-charging school
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Russian:
ча́стная шко́ла
(částnaja škóla)
— fee-charging school
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Spanish:
escuela privada
— fee-charging school
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Swahili:
shule ya kibinafsi
— fee-charging school
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Swedish:
privatskola
— fee-charging school
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Turkish:
özel okul
— fee-charging school
