What is the meaning of school?

noun

  • An educational institution.
    • usage: "the school was founded in 1900"
  • A building where young people receive education.
    • usage: "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"
  • The process of being formally educated at a school.
    • usage: "what will you do when you finish school"
  • A body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers.
    • usage: "the Venetian school of painting"
  • The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session.
    • usage: "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together"
  • An educational institution's faculty and students.
    • usage: "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"
  • A large group of fish.
    • usage: "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

verb

  • Educate in or as if in a school.
    • usage: "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
  • Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.
    • usage: "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
  • Swim in or form a large group of fish.
    • usage: "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
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