reform school

English

Noun

reform school (plural reform schools)

1. (dated) A penal institution for juveniles, especially males.

Synonyms

• borstal (UK)
• reformatory (n.)

Translations

institution for juveniles

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未成年犯管教所 (wèichéngniánfàn guǎnjiàosuǒ)

• Czech: polepšovna (cs) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: nuorisovankila
• Greek: αναμορφωτήριο (el) n (anamorfotírio)
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• 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
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: ungdomsvårdsanstalt c, uppfostringsanstalt c, ungdomsvårdsskola c

Further reading

• reform school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia