"home school" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: home schools [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} home school (plural home schools)
  1. A school within a private domestic place, rather than in a public facility or private institution. Translations (school within private domestic place): kotikoulu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-home_school-en-noun-h-daxnJA Disambiguation of 'school within private domestic place': 86 14
  2. (US, dated) A boarding school. Tags: US, dated Categories (topical): Education Synonyms: homeschool
    Sense id: en-home_school-en-noun-cCw6lfgM Disambiguation of Education: 0 77 23 0 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 35 42 14 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 11 37 27 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 38 28 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 42 32 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 52 22 20 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 9 41 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 8 44 24 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 6 52 24 19

Verb

Forms: home schools [present, singular, third-person], home schooling [participle, present], home schooled [participle, past], home schooled [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} home school (third-person singular simple present home schools, present participle home schooling, simple past and past participle home schooled)
  1. (transitive) To educate children at home, that is, at a private domestic place, in lieu of sending them to a public school or private educational institution. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-home_school-en-verb--S5cKwBA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 35 42 14
  2. (intransitive) To be educated at home. Tags: intransitive Translations (be educated at home): faire l’école à la maison (French)
    Sense id: en-home_school-en-verb-V2Opo4lR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 35 42 14 Disambiguation of 'be educated at home': 32 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (educate children at home): 家庭教學 (Chinese Mandarin), 家庭教学 (jiātíng jiāoxué) (Chinese Mandarin), opettaa kotona (english: to teach at home) (Finnish), faire l’école à la maison (French), zu Hause unterrichten (note: with acc. case) (German), Hausunterricht erteilen (note: with dat. case) (German), häuslichen Unterricht erteilen (note: with dat. case) (German)
Disambiguation of 'educate children at home': 53 47

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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