homeschool

homeschool or home-school [hohm-skool] Examples verb (used with object)

1. to teach (one’s children) at home instead of sending them to school.

verb (used without object)

2. to educate one’s children at home.

noun

3. a school set up in the home.

Related formshome·school·er, noun Examples from the Web for home-school Historical Examples of home-school

Such a home-school the association plants in the midst of these utterly necessitous children.

Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870

Various

British Dictionary definitions for home-school home-school verb

1. to teach one’s child at home instead of sending him or her to school

adjective

2. 1. being educated at home rather than in schoolhome-school kids
   2. relating to the education of children in their own homes instead of in schoolhome-school parents

Word Origin and History for home-school homeschool v.

by 1989 (implied in homeschooling), from home (n.) + school (v.). Related: Homeschooled.