(UK, Ireland, India) 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 .
1580 June 18, Letters of the Privy Council in John Strype's Historyof EdmundGrindal (1710), ii.xi.254
No comments yet — say something.
(North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippines, formerly Scottish English, Scottish) A publicly funded and administered school; (UK, Ireland) such schools in the context of othercountries.
: All such School-masters as have charge of Children and do instruct them either in Publick Schools, or PrivateHouses.
No comments yet — say something.
(obsolete) A college or university.
1604, Acts of Parliament 1 under James I, c.4, §8
No comments yet — say something.
Add your own interpretation of "public school".
The vocabulary of software engineers, AI researchers, and anyone living in a terminal or on GitHub — from LLM to MCP, CORS to vibe coding, agentic to enshittification.
See all Tech, Dev & AI slang on Slangora.