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noun
1.
an institution where instruction is given, especially 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.
EXPANDa session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.
6.
the activity or process of learning under instruction, especially 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, especially for gambling or drinking.
18.
schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
19.
COLLAPSEObsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.
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Schooled
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
verb (used with object)
22.
to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
23.
Archaic. to reprimand.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English scole (noun), Old English scōl < Latin schola < Greek scholḗ leisure employed in learning
before 900; Middle English scole (noun), Old English scōl < Latin schola < Greek scholḗ leisure employed in learning
Related forms
school·a·ble, adjective
school·less, adjective
school·like, adjective
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Word Origin & History
school
"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)).
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