school
(skuːl )
Word forms: schools , schooling , schooled
1. variable noun A1
A school is a place where children are educated. You usually refer to this place as school when you are talking about the time that children spend there and the activities that they do there.
...a boy who was in my class at school.
Even the good students say homework is what they most dislike about school.
I took the kids for a picnic in the park after school.
...a school built in the Sixties.
He favors extending the school day and school year.
...two boys wearing school uniform.
Synonyms: academy, college, institution, institute
2. countable noun [with singular or plural verb] A2
A school is the pupils or staff at a school.
Deirdre, the whole school's going to hate you.
...a children's writing competition open to schools or individuals.
3. countable noun A2
A privately-run place where a particular skill or subject is taught can be referred to as a school.
...a riding school and equestrian centre near Chepstow.
...the Kingsley School of English.
4. variable noun & countable noun A2
A university, college, or university department specializing in a particular type of subject can be referred to as a school.
...a lecturer in the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Stella, 21, is at art school training to be a fashion designer.
5. uncountable noun A2
School is used to refer to university or college. [US]
Moving rapidly through school, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kentucky at age 18.
6. countable noun [with singular or plural verb]
A particular school of writers, artists, or thinkers is a group of them whose work, opinions, or theories are similar.
...the Chicago school of economists. [+ of]
O'Keeffe was influenced by various painters but she was never a member of any school.
Synonyms: group, set, circle, following
7. countable noun [with singular or plural verb]
A school of fish or dolphins is a large group of them moving through water together.
8. verb B2 [Also VERB noun to-infinitive]
If you school someone in something, you train or educate them to have a certain skill, type of behaviour, or way of thinking. [written]
Many mothers schooled their daughters in the myth of female inferiority. [VERB noun + in]
He is schooled to spot trouble. [be VERB-ed to-infinitive]
Synonyms: train, prime, coach, prepare
9. verb B2
To school a child means to educate him or her. [US, also British, formal]
She's been schooling her kids herself. [VERB noun]
schooled graded adjective B2
...a cross-cultural study with Indian children, both schooled and unschooled, and American children.
10. verb
If you school a horse, you train it so that it can be ridden in races or competitions.
She bought him as a £1,000 colt of six months and schooled him. [VERB noun]
11. See also after-school, approved school, boarding school, church school, convent school, driving school, finishing school, grade school, graduate school, grammar school, high school, infant school, junior school, middle school, night school, nursery school, prep school, pre-school, primary school, private school, public school, schooled, schooling, special school, state school, summer school, Sunday school
12. of the old school phrase [usually noun PHRASE]
If you approve of someone because they have good qualities that used to be more common in the past, you can describe them as one of the old school. [approval]
He is one of the old school who still believes in honour in public life.
...an elderly gentleman of the old school.
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Quotations:
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you
A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experienceThe Harpole Report
Idioms:
of the old school
having traditional ideas and values, and being fairly old-fashioned
As a builder of the old school, he did not always see eye to eye with designers of new houses.
She is very much an old-school nurse and her outlook leads to clashes with other staff
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
the old school tie [British]
said to refer to the belief that men who have been to the most famous British private schools use their positions of influence to help other men who went to the same school as themselves
Most of these men claim that school made little difference to the professional paths they followed and try to deny the notion of the old school tie.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
the school of hard knocks
a very difficult or unpleasant life
He graduated from the school of hard knocks as well – most of his family perished in the war.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Collocations:
good school high school sweetheart local school school textbook selective school skip school teach at a school
So what's he going to do about getting my son into a good local secondary school, then?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Getting the best out of all those teachers who are currently ranked as satisfactory will be the quickest route to better schools.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Are there any good schools?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Unassuming and approachable, he lived in a modest house, married to his high school sweetheart.
Times, Sunday Times
You're probably wondering about my high school sweetheart.
Smithsonian
I married my high school sweetheart.
Christianity Today
He missed one game so that he could marry his high school sweetheart.
canada.com
She has fixated on her high school sweetheart as her one missed chance of happiness.
Times, Sunday Times
In one direction, our street leads to my sons' primary school, the other to three local secondary schools.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Getting your foot on the housing ladder and getting a place in your local school gets more and more difficult for young families.
The Sun (2016)
Last month her store arranged for a local school to come in and make bird boxes.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Several resemble colourful versions of the diagrammatic representations of scientific laws that one might find in a school textbook.
The Times Literary Supplement
He has condoned school textbook revisions that have resulted in markedly more patriotic accounts of his country's conduct of the war.
Times, Sunday Times
Her classroom notes on world literature were developed and published in 1922 and 1924 as two-volume school textbook.
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While critics pointed out that there was little in common between school textbooks and financial news, it was not for sale.
Times, Sunday Times
Speaking only to confirm her name, she brushed the dust off school textbooks that had been strewn across the rubble.
Times, Sunday Times
Eighty per cent of those who effectively run Britain attended fee-paying or selective schools, while just a tenth went to comprehensives.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Although selective schools tended to do better overall, this effect was reduced greatly once the socioeconomic background of pupils was taken into account, it added.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
We're not ashamed of being a selective school.
The Sun (2008)
She used to skip school, but now she knows the meaning of responsibility.
Times, Sunday Times
Were you, for example, the type to skip school and get drunk?
Times, Sunday Times
In our experience young people who skip school, for whatever reason, very often lack long-term aspirations, motivation and confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
He needed permission to skip school and got a different kind of education on the links.
The Sun
More research must be done on why young people skip school.
Times, Sunday Times
He was also warned against going back to teach at his school, but nonetheless defied the warnings.
Times, Sunday Times
Teach at a school - from nursery to secondary level - but don't expect constant electricity or running water.
Times, Sunday Times
One day, when she's plucked up the courage to face the crowds of strangers in the south and graduate, she would like to come back to teach at the school.
Times, Sunday Times
Subsequently, a number of other martial arts masters agreed to teach at the school.
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Welch resigned from coaching but continued to teach at the school.
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Translations:
Chinese: 学校
Japanese: 学校
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