finishing school

1. 1.

   a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities

   Broaderschool

Questions about finishing school

What does finishing school mean?

finishing school means "a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities".

Is finishing school a common word?

finishing 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.