school

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

4. 4noun

   A session of an institution of instruction.

5. 5noun

   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. 6noun

   The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

7. 7noun

   An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

8. 8noun

   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. 9noun

   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. 10noun

    Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.

11. 11transitive verb

    To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

12. 12transitive verb

    To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

13. 13noun

    a building where young people receive education

    "the school was built in 1932"

    "he walked to school every morning"

    Synonyms

    schoolhouse
14. 14noun

    the process of being formally educated at a school

    "what will you do when you finish school?"

    Synonyms

    schooling
15. 15noun

    a large group of fish

    "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

    Synonyms

    shoal
16. 16noun

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

    "the Venetian school of painting"

17. 17noun

    an educational institution

    "the school was founded in 1900"

18. 18noun

    an educational institution's faculty and students

    "the school keeps parents informed"

    "the whole school turned out for the game"

19. 19noun

    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. 20verb

    swim in or form a large group of fish

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

21. 21verb

    educate in or as if in a school

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

22. 22verb

    teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

    "Cultivate your musical taste"

    "Train your tastebuds"

    Synonyms

    civilisecivilizecultivateeducatetrain