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The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
Mary Antin

Meaning of "public school" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL

public school play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Public school is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PUBLIC SCHOOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of public school in the English dictionary

The first definition of public school in the dictionary is a private independent fee-paying secondary school. Other definition of public school is any school that is part of a free local educational system. Public school is also in certin Canadian provinces, a public elementray school as distinguished from a separate school.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUBLIC SCHOOL

public property
public prosecutor
public prosecutor´s office
public purse
Public Record Office
public relations
public relations exercise
public relations officer
public schoolboy
public sector
public sector borrowing
public sector borrowing requirement
public servant
public service
public service broadcasting
public service vehicle
public speaker
public speaking
public spending
public spirit

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUBLIC SCHOOL

after-school
business school
driving school
elementary school
graduate school
high school
home-school
infant school
junior high school
law school
medical school
middle school
old school
preschool
primary school
private school
school
secondary school
senior high school
summer school
Sunday school

Synonyms and antonyms of public school in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «public school» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL

Find out the translation of public school to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of public school from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «public school» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

私立学校
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colegio público
570 millions of speakers

English

public school
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पब्लिक स्कूल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَدْرَسَةٌ خَاصَّة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

частная независимая платная средняя школа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escola particular
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাবলিক স্কুল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

école privée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

sekolah awam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Privatschule
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パブリックスクール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사립 중고교
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sekolah umum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trường công
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொது பள்ளி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सार्वजनिक शाळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Devlet okulu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scuola privata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szkoła prywatna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

приватна школа
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gimnaziu privat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιωτικό σχολείο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

openbare skool
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

privatskola
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

offentlig skole
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of public school

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUBLIC SCHOOL»

The term «public school» is very widely used and occupies the 17.594 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUBLIC SCHOOL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «public school» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «public school» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about public school

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10 QUOTES WITH «PUBLIC SCHOOL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word public school.
1
Ben Affleck
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
2
Sal Albanese
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
3
Mary Antin
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
4
Erich Bergen
I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.
5
Crystal Bowersox
I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and I just didn't fit in very well.
6
Josh Bowman
I'm not a typical public school boy.
7
Kyle Chandler
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.
8
Steven Curtis Chapman
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.
9
Steven Chu
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
10
Sasha Cohen
I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUBLIC SCHOOL»

Discover the use of public school in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to public school and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Going Public: Your Child Can Thrive in Public School
Readers of this practical guide will learn how moms and dads have a strategic role to play in the ongoing development of their school-age children.
David Pritchard, Kelli Pritchard, Dean Merrill, 2008
2
American Public School Law
Alexander and Alexander’s best-selling AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW sets the standard for books in educational law, an increasingly vital area of expertise for today’s school and district administrators.
Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander, 2011
3
The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform ...
With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones.
Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski, 2013
4
Alone in the Mainstream: A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School
In writing this important book, Oliva combined her personal experiences with responses from the Solitary Mainstream Project, a survey that she conducted of deaf and hard of hearing adults who attended public school.
Gina A. Oliva, 2004
5
Hello! My Name Is Public School, and I Have an Image Problem
This book enunciates a step-by-step approach to challenging the unjust criticism and accusations of failure by directing the energies of those who work in our schools to step up as ambassadors for America's public schools and the children ...
Leslie Milder, Jane Braddock, 2012
6
Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: ...
Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schoools. The obsession has become known as athleticism. This is a study of the games ethos which dominate the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys.
J. A. Mangan, 2012
7
Public School Choice Vs. Private School Vouchers
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?This volume is a compilation of articles, papers, and discussions on public school choice and private school vouchers.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, 2003
8
Lives of Passion, School of Hope: How One Public School ...
This book describes how a progressive public school has transformed the lives of its alumni. It's the story of an extended family of students, staff and parents who have formed their own community of learners over the course of 38 years.
Rick Posner, Fredric Posner, 2009
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All Together Now: Creating Middle-class Schools Through ...
This provocative book asks a simple question: since we know that middle class schools tend to work best, why not give every child in America the opportunity to attend a public school in which the majority of students come from middle class ...
Richard D. Kahlenberg, 2004
10
Zen And The Art Of Public School Teaching
This book is based upon two assumptions.
John Perricone, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUBLIC SCHOOL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term public school is used in the context of the following news items.
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Chicago Public Schools Warns 1400 Layoffs May Follow $634M …
CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools managed to make a required $634 million payout to its teacher pension fund hours before the midnight Tuesday deadline, ... «DNAinfo, Jul 15»
2
US public schools report fewer violent incidents
The rate of violent incidents in the nation's public schools fell between the 2009-2010 and 2013-2014 school years, a period in which security measures such as ... «Washington Post, May 15»
3
Michigan governor wants to split Detroit Public Schools district to …
Rick Snyder has laid out a plan the struggling Detroit Public Schools district, which has big debts and poor student achievement in many of its approximately 100 ... «WDIV Detroit, Apr 15»
4
US Investigates Possible Misconduct in Chicago Public Schools
CHICAGO — Federal investigators are speaking to public school officials here as part of an inquiry into possible misconduct, the president of the Chicago Board ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
5
11 Former Atlanta Public School Employees Found Guilty In …
Eleven of 12 former public school employees in Atlanta were found guilty of racketeering in what is thought to be the biggest cheating scandal in American ... «NPR, Apr 15»
6
New York City public schools to have Muslim holidays off
(CNN) New York City public schools will now observe two Muslim holidays, officials announced Wednesday, making the district -- the nation's biggest -- one of ... «CNN, Mar 15»
7
Taylor Swift Donates $50000 to New York City's Public Schools
The famously philanthropic pop star has come through on a pledge, made last fall, to donate proceeds from her popular song "Welcome to New York" to the city's ... «People Magazine, Feb 15»
8
Should unvaccinated children be in public schools?
The issue of whether unvaccinated children should be allowed in public schools is "not for us to decide," Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of ... «CBS News, Feb 15»
9
Army Public School In Peshawar Reopens After Taliban Massacre …
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani children returned on Monday to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers last ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
10
Taliban Besiege Pakistan School, Leaving 145 Dead
During an eight-hour rampage at the Army Public School and Degree College, a team of nine Taliban gunmen stormed through the corridors and assembly hall, ... «New York Times, Dec 14»

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