'Reform school' definitions:
Definition of 'reform school'
From: WordNet
noun
Correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders [syn: reformatory, reform school, training school]
Definition of 'Reform school'
From: GCIDE
- Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.] Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. [1913 Webster]
- Civil service reform. See under Civil.
- Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
- 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament.
- Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See Reformation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reform school'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- borstal school,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- POW camp,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reformatory,
- remand school,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school