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Meaning of 'school' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . School [ n.]
- A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
- 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.
- A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
- A session of an institution of instruction.
- 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.
- The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
- An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
- 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.
- 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.
- Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
2 . School [ v. t.]
- To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
- To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

Meaning of 'school' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . school [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a large group of fish
Example in sentence:
  • a school of small glittering fish swam by
Meaning (2):
- the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session
Example in sentence:
  • he didn't miss a single day of school;
  • stay after school;
  • when the school day was done we would walk home together
Meaning (3):
- a building where young people receive education
Example in sentence:
  • he walked to school every morning;
  • the school was built in 1932
Meaning (4):
- an educational institution's faculty and students
Example in sentence:
  • the school keeps parents informed;
  • the whole school turned out for the game
Meaning (5):
- an educational institution
Example in sentence:
  • the school was founded in 1900
Meaning (6):
- a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
Example in sentence:
  • the Venetian school of painting
Meaning (7):
- the process of being formally educated at a school
Example in sentence:
  • what will you do when you finish school?
8 . school [ v]
Meaning (8):
- swim in or form a large group of fish
Example in sentence:
  • A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait
Meaning (9):
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
Example in sentence:
  • Cultivate your musical taste;
  • She is well schooled in poetry;
  • Train your tastebuds
Meaning (10):
- educate in or as if in a school
Example in sentence:
  • The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions

Nearby Words:

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