Usually means: Government funded, free educational institution.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word public school:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. public school: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. public school: Merriam-Webster
  3. public school: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. public school: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. public school: Collins English Dictionary
  6. public school: Vocabulary.com
  7. Public-school, public-school, public school: Wordnik
  8. public school: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. public-school, public school: Wiktionary
  10. public school: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. public school: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Public school, public-school, public school: Dictionary.com
  13. Public School, Public school (Canada), Public school (England), Public school (India), Public school (Pakistan), Public school (UK), Public school (United Kingdom), Public school (disambiguation), Public school (government funded), Public school: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. public school: Rhymezone
  15. Public School: Britih-American Dictionary
  16. public school: FreeDictionary.org
  17. public school: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. public-school, public school: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Public School (United Kingdom), public-school, public school: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (public school)

▸ noun:  (UK, Ireland, India) Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British boarding school
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A college or university
▸ noun:  (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippines, formerly Scottish) A publicly funded and administered school; (UK, Ireland) such schools in the context of other countries

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board school, comprehensive school, big school, combined school, college, convent school, normal school, secondary modern, 11-plus examination, all-round education, more...

Types:
charter school, magnet school, private school, religious school, boarding school, independent school, day school, more...

Phrases:
Gurugram Public School, Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Delhi Public School Society, Public policy school, Public school funding in the United States, more...

Adjectives:
secondary, aularian, hs, comprehensive, polytechnic, postsecondary, batch, trojan, level, collegiate, upper

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Similar:
board school, comprehensive school, big school, combined school, college, convent school, normal school, secondary modern, 11-plus examination, all-round education, more...

Types:
charter school, magnet school, private school, religious school, boarding school, independent school, day school, more...

Phrases:
Gurugram Public School, Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Delhi Public School Society, Public policy school, Public school funding in the United States, Wake County Public School System, more...

Adjectives:
secondary, aularian, hs, comprehensive, polytechnic, postsecondary, batch, trojan, level, collegiate, upper



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