reform school

Questions about reform school

What is another word for reform school?

It depends which reform school you mean. In the sense “correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders”, the synonyms are reformatory, training school. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of reform school?

WordNet records no antonym for reform school. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for reform school come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of reform school

• Full entry for reform schoolAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for reform schoolWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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