An establishment or institution for the formal education of children or young people.

An institution of higher education offering tuition in mainly non-vocational subjects and typically having the power to confer degrees. Also: the…

A place of general education in the arts and sciences; an institution for the study of higher learning; formerly spec. an educational institution…

A place, environment, etc., in which people are trained or develop their skills, esp. of or for a specified profession, job, or activity.

(a) a place where training is given; (b) a place on a training course or scheme; a placement.

figurative. A place, country, society, condition of things, or the like, in which some particular class of persons are produced or trained.

figurative. Chief centre of authority and teaching.

a school receiving pupils from a racial or religious minority.

a small (often private) institution providing residential accommodation with health care, esp. for the elderly; (also occasionally figurative) a…

More widely, an establishment which trains or produces persons, etc., esp. of a characteristic quality or type. Also, a group of persons (spec. in…