Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a private secondary school [syn: prep school]
Wikipedia
A British preparatory school (or prep school) is a fee-paying school for children of the ages of 8-13, preparing them for entry into British public schools or other secondary independent schools.
Preparatory school or prep school may refer to:
- University-preparatory school, a high school in North America, either private or public, designed to prepare students aged 14–18 for higher education at a university or college
- Preparatory school (United Kingdom), an independent school preparing children up to the age of 11 or 13 for entry into fee-paying secondary independent schools
- Gymnasium (school), the European equivalent of a North American university-preparatory school
- Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles
- Middle school, in some countries such as Egypt and Tunisia.
Usage examples of "preparatory school".
The Priory is, without exception, the best and most select preparatory school in England.
First thing tomorrow morning we will have the test and the stapling, and if you don't get As and make enough staples, you'll leave Prufrock Preparatory School.
Oh, Jeeves,' I said, as he shimmered in to clear the table, 'you never went to a preparatory school on the south coast of England, did you?
When they were attending Prufrock Preparatory School, they had thought that their fate was to graduate alongside their friends the Quagmires, but they hadn't seen the academy or the two triplets in a very long time.
I had just fought through a throng of about a hundred reporters to get from the car to the front entrance of John Adams Preparatory School, so I have to admit my ears were kind of ringing from all the yelling (“.
The proprietor of a preparatory school, if he is a man of wealth, need not be able to teach, any more than an impresario need be able to write plays.
I spoke to the principal at the Lincoln Preparatory School, and she's agreed to have Kemal enrolled there on a trial basis.
She was wearing a long, shimmering robe that seemed to change colors as she moved, and a turban that looked very much like the one Count Olaf had worn back at Prufrock Preparatory School.
The approaching crowd felt like a root vegetable that made every tree in the Finite Forest look like a tiny twig, made the huge lasagna served at the Prufrock Preparatory School cafeteria look like a light snack, and made the skyscraper at 667 Dark Avenue look like a dollhouse made for midget children to play with, a root vegetable so tremendous in size that it would win every first-place ribbon in every starchy farm crop competition in every state and county fair in the entire world from now until the end of time.
Sean had gone up to the senior school at the beginning of the year, after ending as head boy and captain of sport at his preparatory school.
It was not a particularly thrilling life - a placid, provincial life in a remote and eccentric girls' preparatory school near the Dorset town of Beaminster, less than ten miles from where Hester had grown up.
Now, he knew, she was living with her boss, a man old enough to be her father but able to keep her in style and Tommy at a boarding preparatory school at Tonbridge.
A few years away at preparatory school did nothing to discourage my tendencies.