choir school

1. 1.

   a school that is part of a cathedral or monastery where boys with singing ability can receive a general education

   Synonymsschola cantorum

   Broaderpreparatory school

Questions about choir school

What does choir school mean?

choir school means "a school that is part of a cathedral or monastery where boys with singing ability can receive a general education".

What is another word for choir school?

Close synonyms include schola cantorum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is choir school a common word?

choir school is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.