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school
1[ skool ]
noun
- 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.
- Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual school of the soldier, the squad school of the squad, or the like.
- Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, especially for gambling or drinking.
- schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
- Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.
adjective
- of or connected with a school or schools.
- Obsolete. of the schoolmen.
school
2[ skool ]
noun
- a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
verb (used without object)
- to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.
school
1/ ²õ°ì³Ü˱ô /
noun
- an institution or building at which children and young people usually under 19 receive education
- ( as modifier )
school bus
school day
- ( in combination )
schoolwork
schoolroom
- any educational institution or building
- a faculty, institution, or department specializing in a particular subject
a law school
- the staff and pupils of a school
- the period of instruction in a school or one session of this
he stayed after school to do extra work
- meetings held occasionally for members of a profession, etc
- a place or sphere of activity that instructs
the school of hard knocks
- 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
the Venetian school of painting
- a style of life
a gentleman of the old school
- informal.a group assembled for a common purpose, esp gambling or drinking
verb
- to train or educate in or as in a school
- to discipline or control
- an archaic word for reprimand
school
2/ ²õ°ì³Ü˱ô /
noun
- a group of porpoises or similar aquatic animals that swim together
verb
- intr to form such a group
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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- ²õ³¦³ó´Ç´Ç±ô·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
- ²õ³¦³ó´Ç´Ç±ô·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of school1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of school1
Origin of school2
Idioms and Phrases
- school of hard knocks. school of hard knocks ( def ).
- school of thought. school of thought ( def ).
More idioms and phrases containing school
In addition to the idiom beginning with school , also see tell tales (out of school) .Example Sentences
Brown’s contributions will be closely watched by those rooting for players from smaller schools to come up big.
A list was drawn up of teenage girls who had been absent from three local schools around the time of Baby Callum's death so their DNA could be tested.
All of their songs, whether fully realized or half-baked, were dutifully logged by McCartney into an exercise book he had swiped from school.
Stanley Zhong had a 4.42 grade point average, a nearly perfect SAT score, had bested adults in competitive coding competitions and started his own electronic signing service all while still in high school.
Jeffrey Mulqueen, president of Leisure World Seniors for Peace, said that when he worked as a school superintendent in Massachusetts, he saw the need to trim administrative costs and cut budgets.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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