- an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
- an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
- a college or university.
- a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.
- a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.
- the activity or process of learning under instruction, especially at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.
- one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.
- a building housing a school.
- the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.
- a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture.
- a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school.
- any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
- the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.
- Art.
- a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school.
- the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.
- any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
- parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier ), the squad (school of the squad ), or the like.
- a group of people gathered together, especially for gambling or drinking.
- the faculties of a university.
- the schoolmen in a medieval university.
- of or connected with a school or schools.
- of the schoolmen.
- See entry at school of hard knocks.
- See entry at school of thought.
- a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.
- an institution or building at which children and young people usually under 19 receive education
- (as modifier)
- (in combination)
- any educational institution or building
- a faculty, institution, or department specializing in a particular subject
- the staff and pupils of a school
- the period of instruction in a school or one session of this
- meetings held occasionally for members of a profession, etc
- a place or sphere of activity that instructs
- a body of people or pupils adhering to a certain set of principles, doctrines, or methods
- a group of artists, writers, etc, linked by the same style, teachers, or aims
- a style of life
- a group assembled for a common purpose, esp gambling or drinking
- to train or educate in or as in a school
- to discipline or control
- an archaic word for reprimand
- a group of porpoises or similar aquatic animals that swim together
- to form such a group