School (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  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.
adjective
  1. of or connected with a school or schools.
  2. of the schoolmen.
verb (used with object)
  1. to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
  2. to reprimand.
Idioms
  1. See entry at school of hard knocks.
  2. See entry at school of thought.
noun
  1. a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
verb (used without object)
  1. to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.
noun
    • an institution or building at which children and young people usually under 19 receive education
    • (as modifier)
    • (in combination)
  1. any educational institution or building
  2. a faculty, institution, or department specializing in a particular subject
  3. the staff and pupils of a school
  4. the period of instruction in a school or one session of this
  5. meetings held occasionally for members of a profession, etc
  6. a place or sphere of activity that instructs
  7. a body of people or pupils adhering to a certain set of principles, doctrines, or methods
  8. a group of artists, writers, etc, linked by the same style, teachers, or aims
  9. a style of life
  10. a group assembled for a common purpose, esp gambling or drinking
verb (tr)
  1. to train or educate in or as in a school
  2. to discipline or control
  3. an archaic word for reprimand
noun
  1. a group of porpoises or similar aquatic animals that swim together
verb
  1. to form such a group
School (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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