Definitions for school
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.2 / 7 votes

1. schoolnoun

   an educational institution

   "the school was founded in 1900"

2. school, schoolhousenoun

   a building where young people receive education

   "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"

3. school, schoolingnoun

   the process of being formally educated at a school

   "what will you do when you finish school?"

4. schoolnoun

   a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers

   "the Venetian school of painting"

5. school, schooltime, school daynoun

   the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

   "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together"

6. schoolnoun

   an educational institution's faculty and students

   "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"

7. school, shoalverb

   a large group of fish

   "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

8. schoolverb

   educate in or as if in a school

   "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"

9. educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civiliseverb

   teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

   "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"

10. schoolverb

    swim in or form a large group of fish

    "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SCHOOLnoun

   Etymology: schola, Latin; ecole, French.

   1. A house of discipline and instruction.

   Their age the same, their inclinations too,
   And bred together in one school they grew. Dryden.

   2. A place of literary education.

   My end being private, I have not expressed my conceptions in the language of the schools. Digby.

   Writers on that subject have turned it into a composition of hard words, trifles, and subtilties, for the mere use of the schools, and that only to amuse men with empty sounds. Isaac Watts.

   3. A state of instruction.

   The calf breed to the rural trade,
   Set him betimes to school, and let him be
   Instructed there in rules of husbandry. Dryden.

   4. System of doctrine as delivered by particular teachers.

   No craz’d brain could ever yet propound,
   Touching the soul, so vain and fond a thought;
   But some among these masters have been found,
   Which in their schools the self-same thing had taught. Davies.

   Let no man be less confident in his faith, concerning the great blessings God designs in these divine mysteries, by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians, concerning the consequent blessings thereof. Taylor.

   5. The age of the church, and form of theology succeeding that of the fathers.

   The first principles of Christian religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Robert Sanderson.

   A man may find an infinite number of propositions in books of metaphysicks, school divinity, and natural philosophy, and know as little of God, spirits, or bodies, as he did before. John Locke.

2. To Schoolverb

   Etymology: from the noun

   1. To instruct; to train.

   Una her besought to be so good
   As in her virtuous rules to school her knight. Fa. Queen.

   He’s gentle, never school’d, and yet learned. William Shakespeare.

   2. To teach with superiority; to tutor.

   You shall go with me;
   I have some private schooling for you both. William Shakespeare.

   Cousin, school yourself; but for your husband,
   He’s noble, wise, judicious. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   School your child,
   And ask why God’s anointed he revil’d. Dryden.

   If this be schooling, ’tis well for the considerer: I’ll engage that no adversary of his shall in this sense ever school him. Francis Atterbury.

WikipediaRate this definition:3.5 / 24 votes

1. School

   A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught, is commonly called a university college or university, but these higher education institutions are usually not compulsory. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (Elementary in the US) and secondary (Middle school in the US) education. Kindergarten or pre-school provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be available after secondary school. A school may be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or a school of dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. There are also non-government schools, called private schools. Private schools may be required when the government does not supply adequate, or special education. Other private schools can also be religious, such as Christian schools, madrasa, hawzas (Shi'a schools), yeshivas (Jewish schools), and others; or schools that have a higher standard of education or seek to foster other personal achievements. Schools for adults include institutions of corporate training, military education and training and business schools. In home schooling and online schools, teaching and learning take place outside a traditional school building. Schools are commonly organized in several different organizational models, including departmental, small learning communities, academies, integrated, and schools-within-a-school.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. school

   A school is an institution or organization which provides education and instruction to students of various age groups. It typically consists of classrooms, teachers, and a curriculum designed to promote learning and academic development. Schools may offer a range of subjects and activities, aiming to equip students with knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for their personal growth and future success.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.8 / 11 votes

1. Schoolnoun

   a shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish

2. Schoolnoun

   a place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets

3. Schoolnoun

   a place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school

4. Schoolnoun

   a session of an institution of instruction

5. Schoolnoun

   one of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning

6. Schoolnoun

   the room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held

7. Schoolnoun

   an assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils

8. Schoolnoun

   the disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc

9. Schoolnoun

   the canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school

10. Schoolnoun

    figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience

11. Schoolverb

    to train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach

12. Schoolverb

    to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train

13. Etymology: [OE. scole, AS. sclu, L. schola, Gr. leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as , the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See Scheme.]

WikidataRate this definition:3.7 / 18 votes

1. School

   A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country, but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught, is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary and secondary education. Kindergarten or pre-school provide some schooling to very young children. University, vocational school, college or seminary may be available after secondary school. A school may also be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or a school of dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. There are also non-government schools, called private schools. Private schools may be required when the government does not supply adequate, or special education. Other private schools can also be religious, such as Christian schools, hawzas, yeshivas, and others; or schools that have a higher standard of education or seek to foster other personal achievements. Schools for adults include institutions of corporate training, Military education and training and business schools.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. School

   skōōl, n. a place for instruction: an institution of learning, esp. for children: the pupils of a school: exercises for instruction: the disciples of a particular teacher, or those who hold a common doctrine: a large number of fish migrating together, a shoal: a system of training: any means of knowledge, esp. (mus.) a treatise teaching some particular branch of the art: a large hall in English universities, where the examinations for degrees, &c., are held—hence, one of these examinations (gen. pl.) also the group of studies taken by a man competing for honours in these: a single department of a university: (pl.) the body of masters and students in a college.—v.t. to educate in a school: to instruct: to admonish, to discipline.—adj. School′able, of school age.—ns. School′-board, a board of managers, elected by the ratepayers, whose duty it is to see that adequate means of education are provided for the children of a town or district; School′-boy, a boy attending a school: one learning the rudiments of a subject; School′-clerk, one versed in the learning of schools; School′-craft, learning; School′-dame, a schoolmistress.—n.pl. School′-days, the time of life during which one goes to school.—ns. School′-divine′; School′-divin′ity, scholastic or seminary theology; School′-doc′tor, a schoolman; School′ery (Spens.), something taught, precepts; School′-fell′ow, one taught at the same school: an associate at school; School′girl a girl attending school.—n.pl. School′-hours, time spent at school in acquiring instruction.—ns. School′-house, a house of discipline and instruction: a house used as a school: a schoolmaster's house; School′ing, instruction in school: tuition: the price paid for instruction: reproof, reprimand; School′-inspec′tor, an official appointed to examine schools; School′-ma'am, a schoolmistress; School′-maid, a school-girl; School′man, one of the philosophers and theologians of the second half of the middle ages; School′master, the master or teacher of a school, a pedagogue:—fem. School′mistress, a woman who teaches or who merely governs a school; School′-mate, one who attends the same school; School′-name, an abstract term, an abstraction; School′-pence, a small sum paid for school-teaching; School′-point, a point for scholastic disputation; School′-room, a room for teaching in: school accommodation; School′-ship, a vessel used for teaching practical navigation.—adj. School′-taught, taught at school or in the schools.—ns. School′-teach′er, one who teaches in a school; School′-teach′ing; School′-time, the time at which a school opens; School′-whale, one of a school of whales; Board′-school, a school under the control of a school-board.—Grammar school, High school, a school of secondary instruction, standing between the primary school and the university; National schools, those schools in Ireland which are under the commissioners of national education; Oxford school, a name given to that party which adopted the principles contained in the Tracts for the Times (cf. Tractarianism); Parochial schools, in Scotland, schools in every parish for general education; Primary school, a school for elementary instruction; Public school, an elementary or primary school: a school under the control of a school-board: an endowed classical school for providing a liberal education for such as can pay high for it—Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse, St Paul's, and Merchant Taylors′, &c.; Ragged school, a free school for destitute children's education and often maintenance, supported by voluntary efforts; Sunday school, a school held on Sunday for religious instruction; Tübingen school, a rationalistic school of theologians founded by F. C. Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and Gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.—The schoolmaster is abroad, a phrase of Brougham's implying that education and intelligence are now widely spread. [L. schola—Gr. scholē, leisure, a school.]

The Roycroft DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 3 votes

1. school

   A training-place--mental, physical, moral. Good boys are boys at work. Bad boys are good boys who misdirect their energies.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. school

   A term applied to a shoal of any of the cetacean animals.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. schoolnoun

   A specific era in hiphop history. There have been many discussions about the difference between the "Old School" and the New School". One accepted view was put to words in alt.rap by Charles L. Isbell: All of time can be divided pretty easily this way: * Everything before "Run DMC" (Run DMC) * Everything before "It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back" (Public Enemy) It gets harder after that, but maybe you'd have to label parallel movements with stuff like: * Everything before "Straight Outta Compton" (NWA) and "Amerikkka's Most Wanted" (Ice Cube) for the West Coast Gangsta Movement * Everything before "3 Feet High And Rising" (De La Soul) and "Low End Theory" (A Tribe Called Quest) for the Jazz/Bohemian Movement Others seem to think we're about to enter the Everything before "93 'Til Infinity" (Souls of Mischief) era for the Ascendency of Hieroglyphics, but I'll reserve judgement on that. There are also several dark moments: MC Hammer ushered in the HipPop Era and Vanilla "No I really used to be rich; May I take your order?" Ice ushered in something unspeakable (Snow, if nothing else). Hmmmmm, here's a way to pass the time: what are the key moments/movements and what albums/artists best represent them? How have they influenced the direction of rap? Making no value judgements, I'd have to say that the four most influential hiphop moments/movements are the ones I listed above and for obvious reasons.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. school

   A building that people attend to learn and receive an education.

   The local school is attended by children during the day and adults use it at night to attend night classes.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 2, 2020  

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   school

   A type of education system for the provision of education, learning, training, instruction for a range of curriculum, courses and study for students with just sufficient classrooms, buildings and appropriate forms of housing, leisure and sports facilities, gym, space for vehicles and bicycles, open space and landscaping, provided as a goodwill gesture to members of the public and paid for with a variety of local unity government funding, regional unity government funding, national unity government funding, european unity government funding, international unity government funding, business funding, philanthropy income, music artist philanthropy income, citizen income and crowdfunding.

   Schools are amazing places to learn, interact, play, laugh, dance and have fun.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 8, 2020  

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:2.8 / 4 votes

1. school

   The school symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the school symbol and its characteristic.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SCHOOL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, School is ranked #63698 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The School surname appeared 313 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname School.
   
   92.9% or 291 total occurrences were White.
   2.5% or 8 total occurrences were Black.
   2.2% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.6% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'school' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #232

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'school' in Written Corpus Frequency: #254

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'school' in Nouns Frequency: #28

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Anagrams for school »

1. slooch

How to pronounce school?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say school in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of school in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of school in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of school in a Sentence

1. Willie Jessop:

   I owe it to every child I can find to get them in school, i owe every mother that needs help. I owe her that. And every father that's trying to find his kids, I owe him that.

2. Fire Marshal Doug Wilhelm:

   The area of origin was a Christmas tree, so we're not sure if it's because of electric or a dried up old Christmas Day tree, it is with unbearable sorrow that we share with you this Christmas morning the tragic news that the King family, in a house fire early today, lost their father [ Eric ] and two Richland Elementary School students.

3. Michelle Woodard:

   Nobody in the school community cares about whether she is safe, how can you call yourself a community when you don't care, whether or not, the people in the community live or die ?

4. Ralph Northam:

   They want us to finally pass commonsense gun safety legislation, so no one has to fear being hurt or killed while at school, at work, or at their place of worship, i look forward to working with our new Democratic majority to make these priorities a reality.

5. Preston Grinstead:

   He's at a tremendous disadvantage, i feel like these are some of the most important years of school because it's the fundamentals and basics … We were worried it would create a snowball effect over the next several years.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=school
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=school
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/school
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=school
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=school
8. ^ The Roycroft Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36566/36566-h/36566-h.htm#:~:text=school
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=school
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=school