English
Noun
reform school (plural reform schools)
- (dated) A penal institution for juveniles, especially males.
- Synonyms: (UK) borstal, reformatory, residential school
2019 July 26, Aminatta Forna, “The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead review”, in The Guardian[1]:And through this one small error of judgment, Elwood’s life is changed when he is sent to a reform school called Nickel.
Translations
institution for juveniles
- Bulgarian: изправителен дом m (izpravitelen dom)
- Catalan: reformatori m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 感化院 (gam2 faa3 jyun6-2)
- Mandarin: 未成年犯管教所 (wèichéngniánfàn guǎnjiàosuǒ), 感化院 (zh) (gǎnhuàyuàn)
- Czech: polepšovna (cs) f
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: verbeteringsgesticht n
- Finnish: nuorisovankila
- French: maison de redressement f, maison de correction (fr) f
- German: Erziehungsanstalt (de) f
- Greek: αναμορφωτήριο (el) n (anamorfotírio)
- Hungarian: nevelőintézet (hu), javítóintézet (hu), javító-nevelő intézet
- Irish: scoil cheartúcháin f
- Italian: riformatorio m, correzionale m, casa di rieducazione f
- Polish: poprawczak (pl) m, dom poprawczy (pl) m, zakład poprawczy (pl) m
- Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
- Punjabi: ਸੁਧਾਰ ਘਰ (pa) m (sudhār ghar)
- Romanian: casă de corecție (ro) f
- Spanish: reformatorio m
- Swedish: ungdomsvårdsanstalt c, uppfostringsanstalt c, ungdomsvårdsskola c
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