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Definition of 'School'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) school
an institution for teaching persons under college age.

2.  school
a college or university.

3.  school
an institution or academic department for instruction in a particular skill or field.

4.  school
a systematic program of studies:
summer school.

5.  school
the activity of teaching or of learning under instruction:
No school today!

6.  school
the body of persons belonging to an educational institution:
The whole school applauded.

7.  school
a building, room, etc., housing an academic department or institution.

8.  school
any place, situation, etc., that instructs or indoctrinates.

9.  school
the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.:
the Platonic school of philosophy.

10.  school
a group of artists whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence.

11.  school
the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity.

12.  school
any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.

13. (adj.) school
of or connected with a school or schools.

14. (v.t.) school
to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.

15.  school
Archaic. to reprimand.

16. (n.) school
a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.

17. (v.i.) school
to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME schol(e) < D school; c. OE scolu troop; see shoal²)

Definition of 'School'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) school
an educational institution
"the school was founded in 1900"

2. (noun) school, schoolhouse
a building where young people receive education
"the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"

3. (noun) school, schooling
the process of being formally educated at a school
"what will you do when you finish school?"

4. (noun) school
a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
"the Venetian school of painting"

5. (noun) school, schooltime, school day
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"

6. (noun) school
an educational institution's faculty and students
"the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"

7. (verb) school, shoal
a large group of fish
"a school of small glittering fish swam by"

8. (verb) school
educate in or as if in a school
"The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"

9. (verb) educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
"Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"

10. (verb) school
swim in or form a large group of fish
"A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

Definition of 'School'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) school
the place where children go to learn, or the time during the day that they are there
an English teacher at one of the local schools; The kids are all at school.; We go to school from 8:30 to 3:30.; My friends came over to my house after school.

2.  school
the process of getting an education
She quit school when she was 16.; high school dropouts going back to school

3.  school
a college or university
My older son is away at school.

4.  school
one of the departments in a college or university
the School of English; a professor in the Business school

5.  school
a place where people go to learn a particular skill
a language school

Definition of 'School'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) School
a shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish

2. (noun) School
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

3. (noun) School
a place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school

4. (noun) School
a session of an institution of instruction

5. (noun) School
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

6. (noun) School
the room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held

7. (noun) School
an assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils

8. (noun) School
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

9. (noun) School
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

10. (noun) School
figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience

11. (verb) School
to train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach

12. (verb) School
to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train

Definitions of 'School'

The Roycroft Dictionary

School
A training-place--mental, physical, moral. Good boys are boys at work. Bad boys are good boys who misdirect their energies.

Translation of 'School'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a place for teaching especially children She goes to the school; He's not at university; – he's still at school; (American) He's still in school.
Afrikaans: skool	Arabic: مَدْرَسَه	Bulgarian: училище
Brazilian: escola	Czech: škola	German: die Schule
Danish: skole	Greek: σχολείο	Spanish: escuela, colegio
Estonian: kool	Farsi: مدزسه	Finnish: koulu
French: école	Hebrew: בֵּית סֵפֶר	Hindi: विद्यालय
Croatian: škola	Hungarian: iskola	Indonesian: sekolah
Icelandic: (barna)skóli	Italian: scuola	Japanese: 学校
Korean: 학교	Lithuanian: mokykla	Latvian: skola
Malay: sekolah	Dutch: school	Norwegian: skole
Polish: szkoła	Persian: مدزسه	Pashto: ښوونځى، مدرسه، مكتب، مسلك
Portuguese: escola	Romanian: şcoală	Russian: школа
Slovak: škola	Slovenian: šola	Serbian: škola
Swedish: skola	Thai: โรงเรียน	Turkish: okul
Taiwanese: 學校	Ukrainian: школа	Urdu: مدرسہ، اسکول
Vietnamese: trường học	Chinese: 学校
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