school > define

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"

• A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, especially in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupre, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
• (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
• (n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
• (v.t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
• (n.) A session of an institution of instruction.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
• (n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.