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school

1

[ skool ]

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.
    1. 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.

    2. 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. Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual school of the soldier, the squad school of the squad, or the like.
  17. Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, especially for gambling or drinking.
  18. schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
  19. Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.


adjective

  1. of or connected with a school or schools.
  2. Obsolete. of the schoolmen.

verb (used with object)

  1. to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
  2. Archaic. to reprimand.

school

2

[ skool ]

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.

school

1

/ ²õ°ì³Ü˱ô /

noun

    1. an institution or building at which children and young people usually under 19 receive education
    2. ( as modifier )

      school bus

      school day

    3. ( in combination )

      schoolwork

      schoolroom

  1. any educational institution or building
  2. a faculty, institution, or department specializing in a particular subject

    a law school

  3. the staff and pupils of a school
  4. the period of instruction in a school or one session of this

    he stayed after school to do extra work

  5. meetings held occasionally for members of a profession, etc
  6. a place or sphere of activity that instructs

    the school of hard knocks

  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

    the Venetian school of painting

  9. a style of life

    a gentleman of the old school

  10. informal.
    a group assembled for a common purpose, esp gambling or drinking
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to train or educate in or as in a school
  2. to discipline or control
  3. an archaic word for reprimand
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

school

2

/ ²õ°ì³Ü˱ô /

noun

  1. a group of porpoises or similar aquatic animals that swim together
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to form such a group
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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  • ²õ³¦³ó´Ç´Ç±ô·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
  • ²õ³¦³ó´Ç´Ç±ô·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of school1

First recorded before 900; Middle English noun scol(e), schole, Old English ²õ³¦Å±ô, scolu, from Latin schola, from Greek ²õ³¦³ó´Ç±ôḗ “leisure employed in learningâ€

Origin of school2

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English schol(e), sculle, from Middle Dutch ²õ³¦³óűô±ð “flock (of animals),†Dutch school “shoal (of fish)â€; cognate with Old English scolu “t°ù´Ç´Ç±èâ€; shoal 2
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of school1

Old English ²õ³¦Å±ô, from Latin schola school, from Greek ²õ°ì³ó´Ç±ôŧ leisure spent in the pursuit of knowledge

Origin of school2

Old English scolu shoal ²
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. school of hard knocks. school of hard knocks ( def ).
  2. 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) .
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Brown’s contributions will be closely watched by those rooting for players from smaller schools to come up big.

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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.

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All of their songs, whether fully realized or half-baked, were dutifully logged by McCartney into an exercise book he had swiped from school.

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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.

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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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