boarding school

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːdɪŋ ˈskuːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔɹdɪŋ ˈskul/

Noun

boarding school (plural boarding schools)

1. A school which provides board and lodging as well as tuition, with students going home during the weekends or between terms.
2. (by extension) A boarding school in which a dominant or colonial culture whitewashes a subordinate one deculturizing the students of their native language, customs, religion, and culture.

Synonyms

• residential school

Translations

school which provides board and lodging

• Apache:

  Western Apache: dakúʼ naháztąągo daʼółtagihí

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَدْرَسَة دَاخِلِيَّة f (madrasa dāḵiliyya)
• Armenian: գիշերօթիկ դպրոց (gišerōtʻik dprocʻ)
• Azerbaijani: internat
• Belarusian: шко́ла-інтэрна́т f (škóla-internát)
• Bulgarian: пансио́н (bg) m (pansión)
• Catalan: internat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寄宿學校 / 寄宿学校 (zh) (jìsù xuéxiào)

• Czech: internátní škola f
• Danish: kostskole c
• Esperanto: internulejo
• Finnish: sisäoppilaitos (fi)
• French: pensionnat (fr) m, internat (fr) m (lodging of some of the pupils in a normal school)
• Georgian: ინტერნატი (inṭernaṭi), სკოლა-ინტერნატი (sḳola-inṭernaṭi), დახურული სასწავლებელი (daxuruli sasc̣avlebeli), დახურული სასწავლო დაწესებულება (daxuruli sasc̣avlo dac̣esebuleba), პანსიონი (ṗansioni)
• German: Internat (de) n, Pensionat (de) n (dated, especially for girls)
• Greek: οικοτροφείο (el) n (oikotrofeío)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: diákotthon (hu), kollégium (hu), bentlakásos iskola, (archaic) internátus (hu)
• Icelandic: heimavistarskóli (is) m
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: scoil chónaithe f
• Italian: collegio (it) m, convitto m, internato (it) m
• Japanese: 寄宿学校 (きしゅくがっこう, kishuku gakkō), ボーディングスクール (bōdingu sukūru)
• Korean: 기숙학교(寄宿學校) (gisukhakgyo)
• Malay: sekolah berasrama
• Manx: scoill oastys f
• Maori: kura noho
• Norman: pensionnat m
• Norwegian: internatskole m, kostskole m
• Occitan: pensionat (oc) m
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: internat (pl) m
• Portuguese: colégio interno m, internato (pt) m
• Romanian: școală-internat f, școală cu internat f
• Russian: интерна́т (ru) m (intɛrnát), шко́ла-интерна́т (ru) f (škóla-intɛrnát)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: internat m

• Spanish: internado (es) m
• Swahili: shule ya bweni
• Swedish: internatskola (sv) c, internat (sv) n
• Tajik: мактаб-интернат (tg) (maktab-internat), интернат (tg) (internat)
• Turkish: yatılı okul
• Ukrainian: шко́ла-інтерна́т f (škóla-internát), інтерна́т m (internát)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: ysgol breswyl f