prep school

noun

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His father was a church organist who taught in Lutheran elementary schools, and Marty attended a Lutheran prep school. Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025 Earlier this week, Newsweek reported that Barron Trump was starting a real-estate firm with a friend from his Palm Beach prep school and an Idaho real-estate developer. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2025 President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, is taking steps to start a high-end real estate business with a prep school classmate and a Republican congressman’s cousin, Newsweek reported. Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2025 Advertisement The former valedictorian of an elite Baltimore prep school and Ivy League graduate shared posts on social media from an eclectic stream of populists, entrepreneurs, neuroscientists, centrists and disruptors. Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for prep school

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First Known Use

1829, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of prep school was in 1829

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“Prep school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prep%20school. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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