Definitions for schoolskul

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

schoolskul(n.)

an institution for teaching persons under college age.
Category: Education
a college or university.
an institution or academic department for instruction in a particular skill or field.
Category: Education
a systematic program of studies:
summer school.
Category: Education
the activity of teaching or of learning under instruction:
No school today!
Category: Education
the body of persons belonging to an educational institution:
The whole school applauded.
Category: Education
a building, room, etc., housing an academic department or institution.
Category: Education
any place, situation, etc., that instructs or indoctrinates.
the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.:
the Platonic school of philosophy.
a group of artists whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence. the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity.
Category: Fine Arts
any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
(adj.)of or connected with a school or schools.
Category: Education
(v.t.)to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
Category: Education
Archaic. to reprimand.

Origin of school:

bef. 900; ME scole (n.), OE scōl < L schola < Gk scholḗ leisure employed in learning

schoolskul(n.)

a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
Category: Animal Behavior
(v.i.)to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.
Category: Animal Behavior

Origin of school:

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

Princeton's WordNet

school(noun)
an educational institution
"the school was founded in 1900"
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(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, 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(noun)
an educational institution's faculty and students
"the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"
school, shoal(verb)
a large group of fish
"a school of small glittering fish swam by"
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"
school(verb)
swim in or form a large group of fish
"A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

school(noun)skul
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.
schoolskul
the process of getting an education
She quit school when she was 16.; high school dropouts going back to school
schoolskul
a college or university
My older son is away at school.
schoolskul
one of the departments in a college or university
the School of English; a professor in the Business school
schoolskul
a place where people go to learn a particular skill
a language school

Webster Dictionary

School(noun)
a shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish
School(noun)
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
School(noun)
a place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school
School(noun)
a session of an institution of instruction
School(noun)
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
School(noun)
the room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held
School(noun)
an assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils
School(noun)
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
School(noun)
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
School(noun)
figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience
School(verb)
to train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach
School(verb)
to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train