private school

1. 1.

   a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition

   Broaderschool

   Narrowerseminaryday schoolboarding school

Questions about private school

What does private school mean?

private school means "a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition".

Is private school a common word?

private 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.