school

school is a 6-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
2. 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.
3. noun. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
4. noun. A session of an institution of instruction.
5. 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.
6. noun. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
7. noun. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. noun. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
11. transitive verb. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
12. transitive verb. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
13. noun. a building where young people receive education

    "the school was built in 1932"

    "he walked to school every morning"

    Synonyms: schoolhouse

14. noun. the process of being formally educated at a school

    "what will you do when you finish school?"

    Synonyms: schooling

15. noun. a large group of fish

    "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

    Synonyms: shoal

16. noun. a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers

    "the Venetian school of painting"

17. noun. an educational institution

    "the school was founded in 1900"

18. noun. an educational institution's faculty and students

    "the school keeps parents informed"

    "the whole school turned out for the game"

19. 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"

    Synonyms: schooltime

20. verb. swim in or form a large group of fish

    "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

21. verb. educate in or as if in a school

    "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"

22. verb. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

    "Cultivate your musical taste"

    "Train your tastebuds"

    Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train

Synonyms

schoolhouse, schooling, shoal, schooltime, civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in school:

cholos

Common word forms

schools, schooled, schooler, schoolful, schooling, schoolable, schoolless

Words from these letters

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