Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A school or college where practical instruction is given, especially in the art of teaching; a school in which instruction and practice in teaching are united; a normal school.
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Examples
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We'll soon have a fine gladiator show to last for three days, no training-school pupils; most of them will be freedmen.
Satyricon 2007
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We are going to study arithmetic and geography until Christmas; then I shall send her adrift to finish her term as pupil-teacher, while I go into a training-school.
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Within two decades virtually every professional baseball umpire was a training-school grad.
WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR? VINCE STATEN 2003
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Opening my briefcase, I handed him Boni's training-school reports.
between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998
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It was, indeed, a singular training-school for a girl of Mary
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1 Lyndon Orr
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It was, indeed, a singular training-school for a girl of Mary
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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Although the smallest Italian city possesses its theatre, and some of the capitals -- Milan and Naples, for instance -- at least a dozen, there is no training-school for the stage in any part of the country.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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It was sometimes termed the _palaestra_, though this name was afterwards restricted to the training-school of the athletes proper, who made gymnastics the business of their lives.
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It has been the training-school for Moody, Whittle, and hosts of laymen who are to-day proclaiming the simple Gospel.
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Something of this has already been done in New York State and at Peoria, Illinois, and there must soon be a regular training-school established to accommodate from fifty to one hundred men.
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