preparatory school

1. 1.

   a private secondary school

   Synonymsprep school

   Broadersecondary school

   Narrowerchoir school

Questions about preparatory school

What does preparatory school mean?

preparatory school means "a private secondary school".

What is another word for preparatory school?

Close synonyms include prep school. 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 preparatory school a common word?

preparatory 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.