Word familyadverbpreparatorilyadjectivepreparatorynounpreparatory school
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preˈparatory ˌschool noun [countableC]
1.SESa private school in Britain for children between the ages of 8 and 13 〔英国供8至13岁孩子就读的〕私立小学，预备学校
2.SESa private school in the US that prepares students for college 〔美国的〕私立高中，私立预科学校
Examples from the Corpus
preparatory school• Undismayed, she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms, and Brian to another preparatory school.• I was then sent to an ordinary preparatory school for boys.• Her family, like mine, was a respectable working-class one, her father being the groundsman at a private preparatory school.