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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"

Definitions of 'school'

Webster 1913 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

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