Usually means: Residential education institution for students.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word boarding school:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. boarding school: Merriam-Webster
  2. boarding school: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boarding school: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boarding school: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boarding school: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boarding-school, boarding-school, boarding school: Wordnik
  7. boarding school: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boarding school: Wiktionary
  9. boarding school: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. boarding school: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Boarding school, boarding school: Dictionary.com
  12. Boarding School (disambiguation), Boarding School, Boarding-school, Boarding school: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. boarding school: Rhymezone
  14. boarding-school: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. Boarding School: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. boarding school: FreeDictionary.org
  17. boarding school: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. boarding school: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. boarding school: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boarding school: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boarding school: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See boarding_schools as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (boarding school)

noun:  A school which provides board and lodging as well as tuition, with students going home during the weekends or between terms.
noun:  (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.

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