1. Noun
A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
2. Noun
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.
3. Noun
A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
4. Noun
A session of an institution of instruction.
5. Noun
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.
6. Noun
The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
7. Noun
An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
8. Noun
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.
9. Noun
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.
10. Noun
Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
11. Verb
To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
12. Verb
To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
13. Noun
a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
14. Noun
an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"
Vocabulary classified under Education
15. Noun
the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?"
Vocabulary classified under History
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