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school¹ Definition

school (sko̵̅o̅l)

noun

  1. a place or institution for teaching and learning; establishment for education; specif.,
    1. an institution for teaching children
    2. a place for training and instruction in some special field, skill, etc. a dancing school
    3. ☆ a college or university
    4. in the Middle Ages, a seminary of logic, metaphysics, and theology
  2. the building or buildings, classrooms, laboratories, etc. of any such establishment
  3. all the students, or pupils, and teachers at any such establishment
  4. the period of instruction at any such establishment; regular session of teaching the date when school begins
    1. attendance at a school to miss school for a week
    2. the process of formal training and instruction at a school; formal education; schooling
  6. any situation, set of circumstances, or experience through which one gains knowledge, training, or discipline the school of hard knocks
  7. a particular division of an institution of learning, esp. of a university the school of law
    1. a group of people held together by the same teachings, beliefs, opinions, methods, etc.; followers or disciples of a particular teacher, leader, or creed the Impressionist school
    2. a group of artists associated with a specified place the Barbizon School
  9. a way of life; style of customs, manners, etc. a gentleman of the old school

Etymology: ME scole < OE scol < L schola, school < Gr scholē, leisure, that in which leisure is employed, discussion, philosophy, school < IE base *seĝh-, to hold fast, overcome > scheme

transitive verb

  1. to train, as at school; teach; instruct; educate
  2. to discipline or control schooled herself in composure
  3. Archaic to reprimand

adjective

  1. of a school or schools
  2. Obsolete of the Schoolmen (see schoolman, sense )

school² Definition

school (sko̵̅o̅l)

noun

a large number of fish or water animals of the same kind swimming or feeding together

Etymology: Du, a crowd, school of fish: see shoal

intransitive verb

to move together in a school, as fish, whales, etc.

school Synonyms

school

n.

  1. An institution of learning

    academy, grammar school, lycée (French), Gymnasium (German). see also academy 1, college, university.

    Varieties of schools include: preschool, nursery school, elementary school, middle school, grade school, grammar school, junior high school, high school, secondary school, private school, public school, day school, night school, parochial school, boarding school, military school, seminary, normal school, conservatory, trade school, vocational school, technical school, graduate school, professional school, divinity school, art school, business school, medical school, dental school, veterinary school, law school, law college, college of law, preparatory school, junior college, community college, the grades*;

  2. Persons or products associated by common intellectual or artistic theories

    class, party, adherents, following, circle; see also academy 2.

  3. A building housing a school, sense 1

    schoolhouse, hall, establishment, institution; see building 1.

go to school

attend school, take classes, study, matriculate; see learn 1, register.

school Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • thought: Ms Morrice: I do not subscribe to that school of thought.

Converse of object

  • attend: I attended the senior school from 1963 through to 1969 when I left to join the army.
  • leave: Coming from an inner city area of Bradford, Mohammed left school with no formal qualifications.

Adjective modifier

  • secondary: Anyway, a few years later I went off to secondary school, where I got a bit more involved with the RSPCA.
  • primary: For all ages, from primary school to adult learners.
  • mainstream: Most mainstream schools are now committed to meeting special needs.
  • special: Read some case studies of special schools offering a range of study support activities.
  • local: On Thursday at Stoke Mandeville Stadium a local primary school was using the pool for their weekly lessons.
  • medical: Students may be based in hospitals or at home in addition to medical schools.

Modifies a noun

  • meal: School meals to remain at £ 1.50 this term!
  • holiday: However, once a month on a Saturday, or during school holidays, they can attend with their families.
  • leaver: In 2003, Hessie came into our class which was the school leavers group.
  • pupil: The taxpayers and the parents of independent school pupils spend serious money on it.
  • teacher: Married for over 30 years to Jill, a primary school teacher, the couple have 3 grown up sons.
  • curriculum: The texts to be analyzed are research articles by academics working in the field of dialect didactics, and school curricula.

Noun used with modifier

  • grammar: Or, to be more precise, education for boys in a grammar school.
  • nursery: Apply for a nursery place near you You can use the link below to apply for a nursery school place online.
  • summer: Further Reading Tom and Ania both felt that they could have prepared better for their summer school.
  • faith: I have a real fear that when such schools are faith schools, this, too, may re info rce divisions.
  • mainstream: The majority of pupils with SEN in mainstream schools are receiving such support in class.
school Quotes

What's the aim of the school of business, for example? They teach students how business is conducted today and how to perpetuate it. Any wonder we're in trouble? They ought to be preparing students for the future, not for the past.

—Deming,W(illiam) Edwards

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of a deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burns

—Burke, Edmund

How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?

—Mathison, Melissa

Vitae, non scholae discimus. It is for life, not for school that we learn.

—Seneca full name Lucius AnnaeusSeneca called theYounger

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.

—Brando, Marlon

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

—Johnson, Philip Cortelyou

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art.

—Nash, (Frederic) Ogden

An oyster of the old school whom nobody can open.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

It is a standing insult tosportsmen to have to play undera rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and to behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney. The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

—Fry, C(harles) B(urgess)

A private school has all the faults of a public school without any of its compensations.

—Connolly, Cyril Vernon

Theyare not clever school boys or scholarship candidates, but 'Fellows of another college'.

—Littlewood,John Edensor

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

—Updike,John Hoyer

   In this House, which is termed a place of free speech, there is nothing so necessary for the preservation of the Prince and State as free speech; and without it, it is a scorn and a mockery to call it a Parliament House, for in truth it is none but a very school of flatteryand dissimulation, and so fit a place to serve the devil and his angels in, and not to glorify God and benefit the Commonwealth.

—Wentworth, Peter

Theschool that Iwenttointhenorthwas a school where more than half the children in my class never had any boots or shoes to their feet. They wore clogs, because they lasted longer than shoes of comparable price. See Bulmer-Thomas166:55.

—Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron

Eachschool can, onceagain, become what it was always meant to beöa building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.

—Akers,John Fellows

The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for manya joke had he.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

Three little maids from school are we, Pert as a school-girl well can be Filled to the brim with girlish glee.

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first.You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

—Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro

I remember summing up what I took to be ourdestiny, in conversation with my best friend at Chartres, by the formula,'Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.'

—Lewis, C(live) S(taples)

Which is more musical, a truck passing bya factory or a truck passing by a music school?

—Cage,John

If he ever went to school without any boots, it was because he was too big for them. SeeWilson 915:89.

—Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor