Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A school, typically used for the purpose of continuing education with classes held predominately in the evening to accommodate students with typical day shift work schedules.
WordNet
n. a school that holds classes in the evenings for students who cannot attend during the day [ant: day school]
Wikipedia
A night school is an adult learning school that holds classes in the evening or at night to accommodate people who work during the day. It can also apply to a community college or university that hold classes for the aforementioned purpose, but also admits undergraduates.
Certain high schools, almost always private or charter do exist in fact, but are usually hard to find.
is a 1956 Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda.
Night School (released in the United Kingdom as Terror Eyes) is a 1981 American slasher film, directed by Ken Hughes and starring Rachel Ward, in her feature film debut. The plot revolves around a series of gruesome decapitation murders targeting mostly college coeds in Boston, Massachusetts. The film was originally to be directed by Alfred Sole, but Sole passed on the project. Ken Hughes was ultimately brought in to direct, and Night School was his final film. The music score was composed by Brad Fiedel.
The film premiered at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival in 1981, and was released theatrically in the United States on September 11, 1981. Night School was denounced by critics upon release, and in England became a video nasty. The film has developed a small cult following among slasher fans, and in 2011, it was given its first DVD release by Warner Archive with a remastered transfer.
A night school is a school which holds courses in the evenings or at night. Night School may also refer to:
Night School is a play by Harold Pinter presented on television in 1960. It was first published in 1961. The plot focuses on a man returning home from prison to find his room being rented out to a tenant. As customary with most of Pinter's works, the play features many aspects of Comedy of menace.
Night School is an upcoming novel by Lee Child. This will be the twenty-first book in the Jack Reacher series.
Usage examples of "night school".
She settled for a secretarial course at night school at Kansas City, Kansas, Community College.
He himself had found work in the clothing industry in New York, studied in night school, worked for an oil company, married and with the death of his wife that spring had set about fulfilling the agelong ambition of his race, the return to their holy land.
He went to night school at Georgia State University and then Emory while his children, though donations from the parish, attended first Christ the King Elementary School and then Pope Pius X High School.
She learned it at a University of Colorado Extension night school, plus a private tutor and a lot of hard work.