Home › Words › H › homeschoolinghomeschoolinghomeschooling means teaching children at home instead of sending them to school.EtymologyCompound of home + schooling.nounTeaching children at home instead of sending them to school.e.g.“A German family that claims it will be persecuted for homeschooling if sent back, lost its asylum request Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court and could be deported.” — 2014 March 3, Bill Mears, “Homeschooling family loses asylum appeal”, in CNN:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).