1. an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
2. an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
3. a college or university.
4. a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.
5. a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.
6. the activity or process of learning under instruction, especially at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.
7. one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.
8. a building housing a school.
9. the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
13. the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.
14. 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.
15. any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
16. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier ), the squad (school of the squad ), or the like.
17. a group of people gathered together, especially for gambling or drinking.
18. the faculties of a university.
19. the schoolmen in a medieval university.

20. of or connected with a school or schools.
21. of the schoolmen.

22. to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
23. to reprimand.

24. See entry at school of hard knocks.
25. See entry at school of thought.

1. a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.

2. 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)
2. any educational institution or building
3. a faculty, institution, or department specializing in a particular subject
4. the staff and pupils of a school
5. the period of instruction in a school or one session of this
6. meetings held occasionally for members of a profession, etc
7. a place or sphere of activity that instructs
8. a body of people or pupils adhering to a certain set of principles, doctrines, or methods
9. a group of artists, writers, etc, linked by the same style, teachers, or aims
10. a style of life
11. a group assembled for a common purpose, esp gambling or drinking

12. to train or educate in or as in a school
13. to discipline or control
14. an archaic word for reprimand

1. a group of porpoises or similar aquatic animals that swim together

2. to form such a group

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