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school

1  [skool]
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–noun
1. an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school.
2. an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
3. a college or university.
4. a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.
5. a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.
6. the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.
7. one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.
8. a building housing a school.
9. the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.
10. a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture.
11. a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school.
12. any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
13. the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.
14. Art.
a. a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school.
b. the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.
15. any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
16. Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like.
17. Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking.
18. schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
19. Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.
–adjective
20. of or connected with a school or schools.
21. Obsolete. of the schoolmen.
–verb (used with object)
22. to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
23. Archaic. to reprimand.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME scole (n.), OE scōl < L schola < Gk schol leisure employed in learning

Related forms:
school⋅a⋅ble, adjective
schoolless, adjective
schoollike, adjective
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school

2  [skool]
–noun
1. a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
–verb (used without object)
2. to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME schol(e) < D school; c. OE scolu troop; see shoal 2
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school 1   (skōōl)   
n.  

  1. An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.

  2. An institution for instruction in a skill or business: a secretarial school; a karate school.

    1. A college or university.

    2. An institution within or associated with a college or university that gives instruction in a specialized field and recommends candidates for degrees.

    3. A division of an educational institution constituting several grades or classes: advanced to the upper school.

    4. The student body of an educational institution.

    5. The building or group of buildings housing an educational institution.

    6. A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief: the school of Aristotle; the Venetian school of painters.

    7. A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions: aristocrats of the old school.

  4. The process of being educated formally, especially education constituting a planned series of courses over a number of years: The children were put to school at home. What do you plan to do when you finish school?

  5. A session of instruction: School will start in three weeks. He had to stay after school today.

    1. A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief: the school of Aristotle; the Venetian school of painters.

    2. A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions: aristocrats of the old school.

  7. Close-order drill instructions or exercises for military units or personnel.

  8. Australian A group of people gathered together for gambling.

tr.v.   schooled, school·ing, schools

  1. To educate in or as if in a school.

  2. To train or discipline: She is well schooled in literature. See Synonyms at teach.

adj.  Of or relating to school or education in schools: school supplies; a school dictionary.

[Middle English scole, from Old English scōl, from Latin schola, scola, from Greek skholē; see segh- in Indo-European roots.]
school 2   (skōōl)   
n.  A large group of aquatic animals, especially fish, swimming together; a shoal. See Synonyms at flock1.
intr.v.   schooled, school·ing, schools
To swim in or form into a school.

[Middle English scole, from Middle Dutch; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
school (so)

  1. tv.
    to teach someone something, usually as a demonstration of power. (As in I'll teach you a thing or two which suggests violence.) : Am I gonna have to school you in how to act?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

school  (1)
"place of instruction," O.E. scol, from L. schola, from Gk. skhole "school, lecture, discussion," also "leisure, spare time," originally "a holding back, a keeping clear," from skhein "to get" + -ole by analogy with bole "a throw," stole "outfit," etc. The original notion is "leisure," which passed to "otiose discussion," then "place for such." The PIE base is *segh- "to hold, hold in one's power, to have" (see scheme). The L. word was widely borrowed, cf. O.Fr. escole, Fr. école, Sp. escuela, It. scuola, O.H.G. scuola, Ger. Schule, Swed. skola, Gael. sgiol, Welsh ysgol, Rus. shkola. Replaced O.E. larhus "lore house." Meaning "students attending a school" is attested from c.1300; sense of "school building" is first recorded c.1590. Sense of "people united by a general similarity of principles and methods" is from 1612; hence school of thought (1864). The verb is attested from 1573. School of hard knocks "rough experience in life" is recorded from 1912 (in George Ade); to tell tales out of school "betray damaging secrets" is from 1546. Schoolmarm is attested from 1831, U.S. colloquial; used figuratively for "patronizingly and priggishly instructing" from 1887.

school  (2)
"group of fish," c.1400, from M.Du. schole "group of fish or other animals," cognate with O.E. scolu "band, troop, school of fish," from W.Gmc. *skulo- (see shoal (2)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

school

In addition to the idiom beginning with school, also see tell tales (out of school).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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