school

Plural: schools

Noun

• an educational institution
  • "the school was founded in 1900"
• a building where young people receive education
  • "the school was built in 1932"
  • "he walked to school every morning"
• the process of being formally educated at a school
  • "what will you do when you finish school?"
• a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
  • "the Venetian school of painting"
• 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"
• an educational institution's faculty and students
  • "the school keeps parents informed"
  • "the whole school turned out for the game"
• a large group of fish
  • "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
• An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
• An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
• 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.
• 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.
• A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
• A multitude.

Verb

Verb Forms: schooled, schooling, schools

• To educate or train in an institution of learning.
• educate in or as if in a school
  • "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
  • "She is well schooled in poetry"
• swim in or form a large group of fish
  • "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
• To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
• To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
• To control, or compose, one’s expression.
• To form into, or travel in, a school.

Examples

• Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
• Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
• He tried to SCHOOL his friend in advanced Scrabble tactics, but it was a tough lesson.
• He was a gentleman of the old school.
• I’ll see you after school.
• Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
• Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
• She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
• The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.
• The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
• These economists belong to the monetarist school.
• We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.

Synonyms

civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school day, schoolhouse, schooling, schooltime, shoal, train, academy, college, department, faculty, institute, school, university

Related Words

:Category:Schools, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/36 § graduate school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/39 § high school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/46 § junior high school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/52 § middle school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/57 § normal school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/58 § open classroom school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/65 § preparatory school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/67 § public school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/75 § secondary school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/80 § special school, Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/83 § summer school, Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 542. School, education

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