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Prep   /prɛp/   Listen
Prep

noun
1.
Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).  Synonyms: homework, preparation.



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"Prep" Quotes from Famous Books



... such a slouch in my younger days," he said. "Football at my prep school, football and crew at my college. Boxed some at odd moments; was counted fair to middling. Some offhand practice since with people I've roasted—agents, actors, and the like. As to that throwing downstairs proposition now, if you'd care ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... faculty of speech: n. surface, ploughed land, prep. on, upon. Ar i fyny, upwards, ar i waered, downwards, pref. gives intensity to the signification of words; as ...
— A Pocket Dictionary - Welsh-English • William Richards

... comp., comparison or comparative; conj., conjunction or conjugation; const., constr., construction; dat., dative; decl., declension; gen., genitive; ind., indicative; indir. disc., indirect discourse; loc., locative; N., note; nom., nominative; plu., plural; prep., preposition; pron., pronoun or pronunciation; sing., singular; subj., subject; subjv., subjunctive; voc., ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett

... impersonal. indecl. indeclinable. indef. indefinite. infin. infinitive. interrog. interrogative. loc. locative. m. masculine. n. neuter. part. participle. pass. passive. perf. perfect. pers. personal. plur. plural. prep. preposition. pron. pronoun or pronominal. rel. relative. sing. singular. ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.

... I did. I'm tired of doing the same things over and over again every day. Getting up in the morning and dressing myself, having breakfast, going to classes, having dinner, grinding at prep, playing tennis, having tea and supper, and undressing and going to bed. I want to sleep in my clothes or go to class in my wrapper just for a change, and I'd like tennis in the morning and tea instead of dinner. I'm tired ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... Stevensons, Baroness Orczys, Garvices, schoolbooks, and atlases, unrelated piles of the Motor Cyclist, the Light Car, and catalogues of Olympia Exhibitions; the remnants of a fleet of sailing-ships from ninepenny cutters to a three-guinea yacht; a prep.-school dressing-gown; bats from three-and-sixpence to twenty-four shillings; cricket and tennis balls; disintegrated steam and clockwork locomotives with their twisted rails; a grey and red tin model of a submarine; ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... mostly of a reminiscent character—recollections of boat-races in the bight, fishing excursions off the coast, clambakes, hew boats, a dog which Donald had given Nan when he left for prep school and which had since died of old age. And all the while Nan Brent's child stood by Donald's knee, gazing up ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne



Words linked to "Prep" :   teaching, schoolwork, education, didactics, instruction, educational activity, pedagogy, school assignment



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