reform school

English

Noun

reform school (plural reform schools)

1. (dated) A penal institution for juveniles, especially males.

   Synonyms: (UK) borstal, reformatory, residential school

   • 2019 July 26, Aminatta Forna, “The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead review”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     And through this one small error of judgment, Elwood’s life is changed when he is sent to a reform school called Nickel.

Translations

institution for juveniles

• Bulgarian: изправителен дом m (izpravitelen dom)
• Catalan: reformatori m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未成年犯管教所 (wèichéngniánfàn guǎnjiàosuǒ)

• Czech: polepšovna (cs) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: verbeteringsgesticht n
• Finnish: nuorisovankila
• French: maison de redressement f, maison de correction (fr) f
• German: Erziehungsanstalt (de) f
• Greek: αναμορφωτήριο (el) n (anamorfotírio)
• Hungarian: nevelőintézet (hu), javítóintézet (hu), javító-nevelő intézet
• Irish: scoil cheartúcháin f
• Italian: riformatorio m, correzionale m, casa di rieducazione f
• Polish: poprawczak (pl) m, dom poprawczy (pl) m, zakład poprawczy (pl) m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Punjabi: ਸੁਧਾਰ ਘਰ (pa) m (sudhār ghar)
• Romanian: casă de corecție (ro) f
• Spanish: reformatorio m
• Swedish: ungdomsvårdsanstalt c, uppfostringsanstalt c, ungdomsvårdsskola c

Further reading

• reform school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia