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School is the place you go to learn, and the place you escape from when you play hooky. When you school someone, it means you’ve educated or put that person in his or her place.

School has its roots in the Greek skhole. That word originally had the sense of “leisure,” which evolved into a “place for discussion,” so you can see how school came to have its modern meaning. School, as in "school of thought," can describe a group of people bonded together by shared principles. The phrase "school of hard knocks" is slang for “rough experience in life.” School also refers to a large group of fish that swim together.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: school

1	n v	an educational institution educate in or as if in a school
2	n	a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
3	n v	a large group of fish swim in or form a large group of fish

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: school

n an educational institution

“the school was founded in 1900”

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a school for special training; correspondence school
a school that teaches nonresident students by mail; crammer
a special school where students are crammed; dancing school
a school in which students learn to dance; direct-grant school
formerly a school that charged tuition fees and also received government grants in return for admitting certain non-paying students who were nominated by the local authorities; driving school
a school where people are taught to drive automobiles; finishing school
a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities; flying school
a school for teaching students to fly airplanes; grad school, graduate school
a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree; language school
a school for teaching foreign languages; nursing school, school of nursing
a school for training nurses; religious school
a school run by a religious body; riding school
a school where horsemanship is taught and practiced; Gymnasium, lycee, lyceum, middle school, secondary school
a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12; secretarial school
a school where secretarial skills (typing and shorthand and filing etc) are taught; tech, technical school
a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences; training school
a school providing practical vocational and technical training; veterinary school
a school teaching veterinary medicine; conservatory
the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts; alma mater
your alma mater is a school you graduated from; public school
a tuition free school in the United States supported by taxes and controlled by a school board; private school
a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition; dance school
a school where students are taught to dance; day school
a school giving instruction during the daytime; night school
a school that holds classes in the evenings for students who cannot attend during the day; Sabbath school, Sunday school
school meeting on Sundays for religious instruction; elementary school, grade school, grammar school, primary school
a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades; junior school
British school for children aged 7-11; infant school
British school for children aged 5-7; yeshiva, yeshivah
an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud); academy
a secondary school (usually private); police academy
an academy for training police officers; military academy
an academy for training military officers; naval academy
an academy for training naval officers; air force academy
an academy for training air force officers; Plato's Academy
a school established by Plato in ancient Athens; business school
a graduate school offering study leading to a degree of Master in Business Administration; dental school, school of dentistry
a graduate school offering study leading to degrees in dentistry; law school, school of law
a graduate school offering study leading to a law degree; madrasa, madrasah
Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan; medical school, school of medicine
a graduate school offering study leading to a medical degree; music school, school of music
a school for the study of music; pesantran, pesantren
a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders; produces young militants skilled in jihad; church school, parochial school
a private religious school run by a church or parish; seminary
a private place of education for the young; seminary
a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis; engineering school, polytechnic, polytechnic institute
a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences; trade school, vocational school
a secondary school teaching the skilled trades; high, high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school
a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; junior high, junior high school
a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades; prep school, preparatory school
a private secondary school; charter school
an experimental public school for kindergarten through grade 12; created and organized by teachers and parents and community leaders; operates independently of other schools; public school
private independent secondary school in Great Britain supported by endowment and tuition; day school
a private school taking day students only; boarding school
a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught; grammar school
a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college; secondary modern school
a former British secondary school emphasizing practical rather than academic education; composite school, comprehensive school
a large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities

Type of:: educational institution
an institution dedicated to education

n a building where young people receive education

“the school was built in 1932”

“he walked to school every morning”

Synonyms:: schoolhouse

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a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts; day school
a school building without boarding facilities; art school
a school specializing in art; music school
a school specializing in music

Type of:: building, edifice
a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

n an educational institution's faculty and students

“the school keeps parents informed”

“the whole school turned out for the game”

Type of:: educational institution
an institution dedicated to education

n the process of being formally educated at a school

“what will you do when you finish school?”

Synonyms:: schooling

Type of:: education
the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

n 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”

Synonyms:: school day, schooltime

Type of:: period, period of time, time period
an amount of time

v educate in or as if in a school

“The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions”

Types:: home-school
educate (one's children) at home instead of sending (them) to a school

Type of:: educate
give an education to

v teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

“She is well schooled in poetry”

Synonyms:: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train

Types:: sophisticate
make less natural or innocent

Type of:: down, fine-tune, polish, refine
improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

n a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers

“the Venetian school of painting”

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a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life; deconstructivism
a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction; historical school
a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms; pointillism
a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France; art nouveau
a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers; lake poets
English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it; secession, sezession
an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s

Type of:: body
a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

n a large group of fish

“a school of small glittering fish swam by”

Synonyms:: shoal

Type of:: animal group
a group of animals

v swim in or form a large group of fish

“A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait”

Type of:: swim
travel through water

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