Definition of Home-school

1. Verb. Educate (one's children) at home instead of sending (them) to a school. "The parents are home-schooling their daughter"

Generic synonyms: School

Lexicographical Neighbors of Home-school

homburgs
home
home(a)
home-
home-along
home-baked
home-brewed
home-builder
home-cured
home-farm
home-fried potatoes
home-grown
home-loving
home-made
home-making
home-school (current term)
home-sickness
home-sicknesses
home-speaking
home-style
home and dry
home and hosed
home appliance
home away from home
home banking
home base
home brew
home buyer
home care
home care agencies

Literary usage of Home-school

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

1. Who's who in America by John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis (1903)
"Massachusetts, tary Home School, 18 miles from Boston, 6 miles from Lowell. Receives boys from 7 to 16 inclusive and fits them for business, ..."

2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1883)
"THE INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. BY JOHN HITZ. " All children within this province of the age of twelve years shall be taught some ..."

3. Reaching All Families: Creating Family-Friendly Schools edited by Oliver C. Moles (1997)
"Content A home-school handbook serves as the school's calling card, establishing a tone for its relations with its families. It also serves as a parents' ..."

4. State and County Educational Reorganization: The Revised Constitution and by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1914)
"Each city of the first class must maintain a parental-home school for the care of truants and school-offenders, and each city of the second class and each ..."

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