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"
  • synonyms: schoolhouse
• The process of being formally educated at a school.
  • usage: "what will you do when you finish school"
  • synonyms: schooling
• 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"
  • synonyms: schooltime, school day
• 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"
  • synonyms: shoal

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"
  • synonyms: educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
• Swim in or form a large group of fish.
  • usage: "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"