training school

1. 1.

   a school providing practical vocational and technical training

   Broaderschool
2. 2.

   correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders

   Synonymsreformatoryreform school

   Broadercorrectional institution

   Narrowerborstal

Questions about training school

What does training school mean?

training school means "a school providing practical vocational and technical training". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for training school?

Close synonyms include reformatory, reform 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 training school a common word?

training 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.