Definition of "boarding school" []

• A school where pupils are provided with meals and lodging. (noun)

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• "By 2001, Morris was doing well at school, and a Roman Catholic nun recruited him to further his studies at a church-run boarding school in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital about 370 miles 600 kilometers south of Kakuma."
• "I remained boyfriendless and pining for Tony until I left that high school for Putney—a boarding school where the groovy clothes Emily had taught me to wear served my social standing well."
• "An averagestudent at an elite independent boarding school in Massachusetts, she could have been achieving more and feeling better about school were it not for the fact that she was faltering badly in all of the subjects that were based heavily on the understanding and use of rules."