SCHOOL

school, schoolhouse

(noun) a building where young people receive education; “the school was built in 1932”; “he walked to school every morning”

school, schooling

(noun) the process of being formally educated at a school; “what will you do when you finish school?”

school, shoal

(noun) a large group of fish; “a school of small glittering fish swam by”

school

(noun) a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; “the Venetian school of painting”

school

(noun) an educational institution; “the school was founded in 1900”

school

(noun) an educational institution’s faculty and students; “the school keeps parents informed”; “the whole school turned out for the game”

school, schooltime, school day

(noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session; “stay after school”; “he didn’t miss a single day of school”; “when the school day was done we would walk home together”

school

(verb) swim in or form a large group of fish; “A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait”

school

(verb) educate in or as if in a school; “The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions”

educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise

(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; “Cultivate your musical taste”; “Train your tastebuds”; “She is well schooled in poetry”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

school (plural schools)

(collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

A multitude.

Synonyms

• (fish): shoal

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

(intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.

Etymology 2

Noun

school (plural schools)

(US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

(British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).

(UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

An art movement, a community of artists.

(considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.

The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

Synonyms

• (institution dedicated to teaching and learning): academy, college, university

• (organizational unity within an educational institution): college, department, faculty, institute

Hyponyms

• See also school

Coordinate terms

• (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

(transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).

(transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

(transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

Anagrams

• cholos

Source: Wiktionary

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School, n. Etym: [For shool a crowd; prob. confuced with school for learning.]

Definition: A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

School, n. Etym: [OE. scole, AS. sc, L. schola, Gr. Scheme.]

1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Acts xix. 9.

2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. As he sat in the school at his primer. Chaucer.

3. A session of an institution of instruction. How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day Shak.

4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.

5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences Buckminster.

7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. Jer. Taylor.

8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. A. S. Hardy.

9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc.

– High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U.S.] -- School board, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accomodation for all children in their dictrict.

– School commitee, School board, an elected commitee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U.S.] -- School days, the period in which youth are sent to school.

– School district, a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] -- Sunday school, or Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.

School, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Schooling.]

1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. Shak.

2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic disciplene; to train. It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. Dryden. The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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