Definition of Day school

1. Noun. A private school taking day students only.

Generic synonyms: Private School
Antonyms: Boarding School

2. Noun. A school giving instruction during the daytime.
Generic synonyms: School
Antonyms: Night School

3. Noun. A school building without boarding facilities.
Generic synonyms: School, Schoolhouse

Definition of Day school

1. Noun. A school attended during the day, as opposed to a boarding school. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Day School

day of the month
day of the week
day off
day one
day or night
day out
day pack
day packs
day pupil
day pupils
day release
day residue
day return
day room
day rooms
day school (current term)
day shift
day shifts
day sight
day sign
day signs
day time
day to day
day trade
day trader
day trading
day trip
day trips
day watch
dayaks

Literary usage of Day school

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"Wherever they exist independently without unity of action, they ignore the day-school altogether. I hold that the day-school is an exceedingly interesting ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Maine: St. Agatha, a high school, a boarding-school and day-school, and a hospital at Grand Isle; parochial schools. New York: Ozone Park, Long Island, ..."

3. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1879)
"One is with regard to the day-school scholars ; the second i8 as to the older ... If, however, you will take your day-school scholars, and form them into ..."

4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"Then followed the preparatory day-school, a school for girls and boys to which he went with his sister Fanny, and which was in a place called Rome ..."

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