school
school - English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sko͞ol, IPA: /skuːl/
- (General Australian) IPA: /skuːɫ/
Alternative forms
- schole (obsolete)
Noun
school (countable and uncountable, plural schools)
- (Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
- Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
- Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
- Synonyms: academy, college, university
- (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
- Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
- Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
- We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
- Synonyms: college, department, faculty, institute
- An art movement, a community of artists.
- The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.
- (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
- These economists belong to the monetarist school.
- The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
- I’ll see you after school.
- The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
- The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
- He was a gentleman of the old school.
- An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
Hyponyms
- See also school
Coordinate terms
- (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university
Derived terms
- boarding school
- comprehensive school
- cram school
- elementary school
- grade school
- grammar school
- high school
- home school
- infant school
- junior high school
- junior school
- lower school
- magnet school
- middle school
- new school
- non-school, nonschool
- nursery school
- old school
- prep school
- primary school
- private school
- public school
- real school
- school age
- school band
- school holidays
- school night
- school of thought
- school trip
- school year, schoolyear
- schoolbag
- schoolbook
- schoolboy
- schoolchild
- schoolday, school day
- schoolfellow
- schoolfriend
- schoolgirl
- schoolground
- schoolkid
- schoolma'am
- schoolmaster
- schoolmistress
- school's out
- schoolteacher
- schoolwork
- secondary modern school
- secondary school
- skoo'
- state school
- Sunday school
- tell tales out of school
- upper school
Descendants
- Bislama: skul
- Kriol: skul
- Nigerian Pidgin: skul
- Tok Pisin: skul, sikul
- Pijin: skul
- → Afar: iskool
- → Assamese: স্কুল (skul)
- → Bengali: স্কুল (skul)
- → Dura: स्कूल
- → East Futuna: sekolā
- → Hindi: स्कूल (skūl)
- → Maori: kura
- → Nepali: स्कुल (skul)
- → Punjabi: ਸਕੂਲ (sakūl)
- → Swahili: skule, skuli
- → Urdu: اسکول
- → Yup'ik: eskuulaq
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Verb
school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
- (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
- Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
- (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.
- She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
Derived terms
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Alternative forms
- skull (obsolete)
Noun
school (plural schools)
- (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
- The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
- Synonym: shoal
- A multitude.
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Verb
school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
Anagrams
school - Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /sxoːl/
- Hyphenation: school
Noun
school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
- A school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
- Synonym: (slang) skorro
- A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
- Any organisation providing instruction.
- A movement or stylistic trend.
Derived terms
- avondschool
- basisschool
- dansschool
- hogeschool
- kleuterschool
- kweekschool
- lagere school
- leerschool
- middelbare school
- muziekschool
- rijschool
- scholen
- school-tv
- schoolarts
- schoolbank
- schoolboek
- schoolbord
- schoolhuis
- schoolinspectie
- schooljongen
- schoolkind
- schoolkrijt
- schoolmeester
- schoolplein
- schoolradio
- schooltas
- schooltelevisie
- schoolvakantie
- schoolvos
- schoolziek
- sportschool
- toneelschool
Descendants
Noun
school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
- A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.
Derived terms
Verb
school