day school

noun

: an elementary or secondary school held on weekdays
specifically : a private school without boarding facilities

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The yeshivas represent a small number of the many Jewish day schools in New York otherwise providing a quality education. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025 Open house was sparsely attended and the next day school leaders couldn’t figure out why. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024 The girls, ages 13 to 17, were tossed together because a juvenile-court judge sentenced them to a strict day school called Carroll Academy. John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024 His synagogue, which meets at the Maimonides School—a Modern Orthodox day school—was one of seven Orthodox shuls that were a part of the Oct. 6 siyum. Emily Goldberg, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for day school

Word History

First Known Use

1718, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of day school was in 1718

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“Day school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20school. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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