school¹ /skool/

1. A place for instruction
2. An institution for education, esp primary or secondary, or for the teaching of a specific subject or subjects (eg a ballet school)
3. A division of such an institution
4. A building or room used for that purpose
5. The work of such an institution
6. The time during which pupils, etc attend it
7. The body of pupils in it
8. The disciples of a particular teacher
9. A group of artists whose work shares a common style, from the circumstance of their having received instruction at the same place or under the same master, sometimes used by way of rough attribution where a work is by an unknown hand
10. Those who hold a common doctrine or follow a common tradition
11. A particular environment or set of experiences seen as a training ground
12. A group of people meeting in order to play card games, usu for money (informal)
13. A method of instruction
14. An instruction book (now usu in music)
15. The body of instructors and students in a university, college, faculty, or department
16. A group of studies in which honours may be taken
17. (in pl) academic institutions
18. (in pl) an academic disputation
19. (in pl) the BA examinations at Oxford
20. (in pl) a university building comprising rooms for lectures, disputations or (in modern Oxford use) examinations

Of school, schools, or the schools

1. To educate in a school
2. To train, to drill
3. To instruct
4. To coach in a part to be played
5. To teach overbearingly
6. To discipline
7. To admonish (obsolete)

schooled adjective

1. Trained
2. Experienced

schoolˈery noun (archaic)

Something taught, precepts

schoolˈie noun (Aust inf)

1. A school teacher
2. A school pupil
3. A school-leaver

schoolˈing noun

1. Instruction or maintenance at school
2. Tuition
3. Training
4. Discipline
5. School fees
6. Reproof
7. Reprimand

schoolˈward adjective and adverb

schoolˈwards adverb

school age noun

The age at which children attend school

schoolˈ-age adjective

schoolˈbag noun

A bag for carrying school books

school bell noun

A bell to announce time to begin or end lessons at school

school board noun

1. Formerly, an elected board of school managers for a parish, town, or district
2. Now, a board made up of elected parents, teachers and community representatives with responsibility for the management of an individual school

school book noun

A book used in school

schoolˈboy noun

A boy attending school

adjective

Of or appropriate for schoolboys

schoolˈboyish adjective

schoolˈ-bred adjective

School Certificate noun

(formerly in England, Wales and New Zealand) a secondary-school qualification gained by succeeding in public examinations

schoolˈchild noun

schoolˈcraft noun (archaic)

Learning

school dame noun

The mistress of a dame-school (qv under dame¹)

schoolˈday noun

1. A day on which schools are open
2. (in pl) time of being a school pupil

schoolˈ-divine noun

schoolˈ-divinˈity noun

Scholastic or seminary theology

school doctor noun

1. A physician appointed to examine or attend the pupils of a school or schools
2. A schoolman
3. A schoolteacher (obsolete)

school experience same as teaching practice (see under teach).

schoolˈfellow noun

Someone taught at the same school at the same time as oneself

schoolˈ-friend noun

Someone who is or has been one's friend at school

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