'School' definitions:
Definition of 'school'
From: WordNet
noun
An educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"
noun
A building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" [syn: school, schoolhouse]
noun
The process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school, schooling]
noun
A body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting"
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"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together" [syn: school, schooltime, school day]
noun
An educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"
noun
A large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" [syn: school, shoal]
verb
Educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
verb
Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise]
verb
Swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
Definition of 'School'
From: GCIDE
- School \School\, n. [For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with school for learning.] A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'School'
From: GCIDE
- School \School\, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc?lu, L. schola, Gr. ? leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as ?, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See Scheme.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. --Acts xix. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. [1913 Webster]
- As he sat in the school at his primer. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A session of an institution of instruction. [1913 Webster]
- How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. [1913 Webster]
- 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. [1913 Webster]
- What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? --Buckminster. [1913 Webster]
- 7. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 8. 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. [1913 Webster]
- His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. --A. S. Hardy. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. [1913 Webster]
- Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc.
- High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U. S.]
- School board, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district.
- School committee, School board, an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U. S.]
- School days, the period in which youth are sent to school.
- School district, a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.]
- Sunday school, or Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'School'
From: GCIDE
- School \School\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Schooling.]
- 1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. [1913 Webster]
- He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. [1913 Webster]
- It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'school'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- academic,
- adherents,
- advance,
- affiliation,
- American,
- approach,
- army,
- Art Nouveau,
- art schools,
- articles of religion,
- Ashcan school,
- Barbizon,
- Bauhaus,
- body,
- Bolognese,
- branch,
- British,
- broaden the mind,
- bunch,
- catechism,
- catechize,
- church,
- circle,
- civilize,
- class,
- classroom,
- clique,
- coach,
- Cobra,
- college,
- collegiate,
- colony,
- communion,
- community,
- confession,
- control,
- coterie,
- credenda,
- credo,
- creed,
- cult,
- cultivate,
- demonstrate,
- denomination,
- direct,
- disciples,
- discipline,
- division,
- doctrinal statement,
- dogma,
- drift,
- drill,
- drive,
- drove,
- Dutch,
- eclectic,
- edify,
- educate,
- educational institution,
- enlighten,
- equip,
- extramural,
- faction,
- faith,
- fashion,
- fellowship,
- Flemish,
- flock,
- followers,
- Fontainebleau,
- form,
- formulated belief,
- French,
- gam,
- gang,
- genre,
- give instruction,
- give lessons in,
- gospel,
- ground,
- group,
- groups,
- guide,
- herd,
- host,
- ideology,
- illumine,
- inculcate,
- indoctrinate,
- inform,
- institute,
- instruct,
- interscholastic,
- intramural,
- ism,
- Italian,
- junior high school,
- kennel,
- kind,
- kindergarten,
- lead,
- lines,
- litter,
- manage,
- manner,
- Mannerist,
- middle school,
- Milanese,
- Modenese,
- Momentum,
- mould,
- movement,
- Neapolitan,
- New York,
- offshoot,
- open the eyes,
- opinion,
- order,
- organization,
- pack,
- Paduan,
- Parisian,
- party,
- pencil,
- persuasion,
- Phases,
- philosophy,
- plein-air,
- pod,
- political faith,
- political philosophy,
- Pre-Raphaelite,
- prepare,
- preschool,
- pride,
- prime,
- principles,
- private school,
- public school,
- Raphaelite,
- ready,
- reeducate,
- Reflex,
- religion,
- religious order,
- Restany,
- Roman,
- schism,
- scholastic,
- Scottish,
- sect,
- sectarism,
- segment,
- seminary,
- set,
- set right,
- shape,
- sharpen the wits,
- shoal,
- show,
- show how,
- Sienese,
- skulk,
- sloth,
- society,
- Spur,
- style,
- Suprematism,
- system of belief,
- teach,
- teach a lesson,
- teach the rudiments,
- teaching,
- the grand style,
- The Ten,
- train,
- trip,
- troop,
- Tuscan,
- tutor,
- Umbrian,
- university,
- variety,
- Venetian,
- version,
- view,
- Washington,
- way of life,
- Weltanschauung,
- world view
Words containing 'School'
- Schooled,
- Schooling,
- Barbison school,
- Barbizon school,
- Boarding school,
- Bolognese school,
- Common school,
- Correspondence school,
- Dancing school,
- Day school,
- District school,
- Eclectic school,
- Foundation school,
- Free school,
- Grammar school,
- Grolier school,
- Hedge school,
- High school,
- Industrial school,
- Italic school,
- Lake school,
- Life school,
- Megarian school,
- Megaric school,
- Mission school,
- Normal school,
- Parker School,
- Public school,
- Ragged school,
- Reform school,
- Regimental school,
- Riding school,
- Sabbath school,
- School board,
- School committee,
- School days,
- School district,
- School of Aristippus,
- School of Stoics,
- School of design,
- School of the prophets,
- Singing school,
- Starr School,
- Sunday school,
- The Dellacruscan School,
- To keep school,
- Vested school,
- Writing school,
- after-school,
- art school,
- ashcan school,
- business school,
- catholic school,
- charter school,
- choir school,
- church school,
- composite school,
- comprehensive school,
- dance school,
- dental school,
- driving school,
- elementary school,
- engineering school,
- finishing school,
- flying school,
- grad school,
- grade school,
- graduate school,
- historical school,
- infant school,
- intermediate school,
- junior school,
- language school,
- law school,
- medical school,
- middle school,
- music school,
- night school,
- nursery school,
- nursing school,
- old school,
- out-of-school,
- parochial school,
- prep school,
- preparatory school,
- primary school,
- private school,
- religious school,
- school assignment,
- school bell,
- school bus,
- school crossing,
- school day,
- school dictionary,
- school newspaper,
- school of dentistry,
- school of law,
- school of medicine,
- school of music,
- school of nursing,
- school of thought,
- school paper,
- school phobia,
- school principal,
- school ship,
- school superintendent,
- school system,
- school teacher,
- school term,
- school text,
- school year,
- schools of the prophets,
- secondary school,
- secretarial school,
- special school,
- summer school,
- technical school,
- trade school,
- training school,
- veterinary school,
- vocational school,
- Parker School, MT,
- School-teacher,
- School-teaching,
- Starr School, MT,
- home-school,
- home-schooled,
- hudson river school,
- junior high school,
- old school tie,
- open classroom school,
- secondary modern school,
- senior high school,
- direct-grant school,
- school-age child