public school

Etymology
From (originally, "communal" and contrasted with personal tutors; later, "state-run" and contrasted with private schools) +.

Noun

 * 1)  Certain private schools, particularly  any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or  the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British boarding school
 * 2) * 1580 June 18, Letters of the Privy Council in John Strype's History of Edmund Grindal (1710), ii.xi.254
 * All such School-masters as have charge of Children and do instruct them either in Publick Schools, or Private Houses.
 * 1) * 1604, Acts of Parliament 1 under James I, c.4, §8
 * No person shall keepe any schoole... except it be in some publike or free Grammer Schoole, or in some such noblemans... or gentlemans... house as are not recusants.
 * 1)  A college or university
 * 2) * 1582, W. Allen, Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom, sig. d3
 * Thither [to Douai] he went, where after a yeres great diligence and many excercises done booth in house and publike scholes, he proceded bachilier of diuinitie.
 * 1) * ante 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604), sig. A3v
 * Ile haue them fill the publike schooles with skill. Wherewith the students shal be brauely clad.
 * 1)  A publicly funded and administered school;  such schools in the context of other countries
 * 2) * 1872, Acts of Parliament 35 & 36 under Victoria (Scotland), c.62, §25
 * Every school under the management of the school board of a parish shall be deemed a parish school, and every school under the management of the school board of a burgh shall be deemed a burgh school, and all such schools are hereby declared to be public schools within the meaning of this Act.
 * Ile haue them fill the publike schooles with skill. Wherewith the students shal be brauely clad.
 * 1)  A publicly funded and administered school;  such schools in the context of other countries
 * 2) * 1872, Acts of Parliament 35 & 36 under Victoria (Scotland), c.62, §25
 * Every school under the management of the school board of a parish shall be deemed a parish school, and every school under the management of the school board of a burgh shall be deemed a burgh school, and all such schools are hereby declared to be public schools within the meaning of this Act.
 * 1) * 1872, Acts of Parliament 35 & 36 under Victoria (Scotland), c.62, §25
 * Every school under the management of the school board of a parish shall be deemed a parish school, and every school under the management of the school board of a burgh shall be deemed a burgh school, and all such schools are hereby declared to be public schools within the meaning of this Act.
 * 1) * 1872, Acts of Parliament 35 & 36 under Victoria (Scotland), c.62, §25
 * Every school under the management of the school board of a parish shall be deemed a parish school, and every school under the management of the school board of a burgh shall be deemed a burgh school, and all such schools are hereby declared to be public schools within the meaning of this Act.
 * 1) * 1872, Acts of Parliament 35 & 36 under Victoria (Scotland), c.62, §25
 * Every school under the management of the school board of a parish shall be deemed a parish school, and every school under the management of the school board of a burgh shall be deemed a burgh school, and all such schools are hereby declared to be public schools within the meaning of this Act.

Translations

 * German: Public School


 * Esperanto: ŝtata lernejo
 * Finnish: yleinen koulu,
 * French: école publique
 * German: öffentliche Schule
 * Greek: δημόσιο σχολείο
 * Indonesian: sekolah negeri
 * Khmer: សាលារដ្ឋ, សាលាសាធារណៈ
 * Malay:
 * Portuguese: escola pública
 * Romanian:
 * Tagalog: paaralang bayan, paaralang publiko, paaralang pampubliko


 * Vietnamese: