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school
I. \ˈskül\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English scole, from Old English scōl, from Latin schola leisure devoted to learning, lecture, school, from Greek scholē leisure, learned discussion, lecture, school; akin to Greek echein, schein to have, hold — more at scheme
1.
a.
(1) : an organized body of scholars and teachers associated for the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge (as in a particular advanced field) and constituting a college especially of a medieval university
(2) schools plural : the academic or learned world : universities — usually used with the definite article
< the view accepted by the schools >
(3) usually capitalized, obsolete : schoolmen — usually used in plural
b.
(1) : the body of pupils or students attending a school
< the new teacher is liked by the whole school >
(2) : the members of a school including both faculty and students
< the school had a holiday >
< the school participated in a fire drill >
c.
(1) : the disciples or followers of a teacher
(2) : persons who hold a common doctrine or accept the same teachings or follow the same intellectual methods : a sect or denomination (as in philosophy, theology, medicine, or politics)
< belonged to the radical school of economists >
(3) : people forming a distinguishable group or class and sharing common principles, canons, precepts, or a common body of opinion or practice
< a gentleman of the old school >
< other schools of opinion >
(4) : a group (as of painters, sculptors, or musicians) under a common local or personal influence producing a general similarity in their work
< the Wagnerian school >
also : the artists or art of a country or region
< paintings of the Flemish school >
d. Britain : a body of gamblers or thieves : gang
2.
a. : an organized source of education or training: as
(1) : an institution for the teaching of children : an elementary or secondary school
(2) : an institution for specialized higher education usually within a university
< the school of medicine at the state university >
(3) : college, university
< the excellent east coast schools >
(4) : an establishment for teaching a particular skill or group of skills
< a school of design >
< a fencing school >
< a beauticians' school >
b. : a place where instruction is given:
(1) : a place where lectures are held; especially : a place for lectures in logic, metaphysics, and theology in the medieval period
(2) : a building or hall where examinations for degrees and honors are held at an English university
(3) : a building or group of buildings in which a school is conducted
< the new school is very elaborate >
< the most beautiful school in the area >
(4) : an area (as an enclosure or covered ring) where horses are schooled : a riding school
c. : something that is a source of instruction
< the school of experience >
3.
a. : the process of being instructed or educated in institutions for teaching the young
< found school very difficult >
b. : attendance at a school
< he quit school >
< during her last year of school >
4. : a session of a school
< there will be no school on Friday >
< late for school >
< kept in after school >
5. : an administrative unit in a private school comprising several consecutive grades or forms
< a lower school >
< boys in the upper school >
6.
a. : a final examination for the bachelor of arts degree (as at Oxford University)
b. : an honors course (as at Oxford University)
7.
a. : a book of instruction (as in a particular system of execution in music)
b. : a system of instruction or execution
8. : the regulations governing military drill of individuals or of a unit of a given size or kind; also : the exercises carried out in accordance with such regulations
< the school of the soldier >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1. : to educate or provide with education in an institution of learning : send to school
< the boy was schooled at great cost to his family >
2. : to give teaching or training to:
a. : to teach or drill in a specific knowledge, attitude, or skill
< well schooled in languages >
< our parents have schooled us in the principle of the rights of the individual >
b. : to instruct, stabilize, or inure by practice, long or repeated experience, or subjection to systematic discipline — usually used with in
< school oneself in patience >
< schooling a horse in the five gaits >
< school an athlete in timing >
c. : to make tractable (as by teaching, admonition, or chastisement)
d. : to educate, cultivate, or advance mentally or culturally by formal instruction in or as if in a school
< schooled his mind with travel and study >
e.
(1) archaic : to reprove for error or fault : set right : chide, admonish; also : to dictate to
(2) obsolete : to punish by way of giving a lesson
intransitive verb
1. : to go to school
2. : to ride or course cross-country
< schooling over meadows and hills >
Synonyms: see teach
III. adjective
1. : of or relating to a school
< school traditions >
: connected with or employed in connection with a school
< a school library >
< the school superintendent >
2.
a. : of the kind taught in school
< school studies >
sometimes : superficially and incompletely mastered
< amateurish school French >
b. : of the kind taught or practiced in a school of horsemanship : trained in a school of horsemanship : schooled
< a school gait >
3.
a. : of or relating to the Schoolmen
< school theology >
: of the kind employed by the Schoolmen
< school arguments >
b. : being or involving mere abstractions or quibbling : having no practical application or value
< school language >
< a school name >
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English scole, from Middle Dutch schole group especially of fish or animals of one kind, multitude; akin to Old English scolu multitude, troop, sciell shell — more at shell
1. : a large number of one kind of fish or other aquatic animals swimming or feeding together
< a school of dolphins >
2. : a large group of flock (as of birds or people)
< too busy receiving the congratulations of a school of admirals for us to buttonhole her — New Yorker >
V. intransitive verb
of fishes : to swim and feed together in large numbers
< bluefish are schooling > |