school

adj. pertaining to a school, pertaining to an educational institution

n. any institution of learning; group of people influenced by a common master or system of thought; system; faculty, academic department; large group of fish or sea mammals

v. teach, instruct, provide with an education; train, guide; swim or feed in a large group (about fish or sea mammals)

This article is about institutions for learning. For the concept of "schooling", see Education. For other uses of the word "school", see School (disambiguation) or Educational institution.A school is an institution where students (or "pupils") learn while under the supervision of teachers. In most systems of formal education, students progress through a series of schools: primary school, secondary school, and possibly a university , vocational school or a college. A school may also be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or a school of dance. In homeschooling and online schools, teaching and learning take place outside of a traditional school building.
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Noun
1. an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"
(hypernym) educational institution
(hyponym) academy
(member-meronym) staff, faculty
2. a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"
(synonym) schoolhouse
(hypernym) building, edifice
(hyponym) conservatory, conservatoire
(part-holonym) school system
(part-meronym) classroom, schoolroom
3. the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?"
(synonym) schooling
(hypernym) education
4. an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"
(hypernym) educational institution
5. the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools 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"
(synonym) schooltime, school day
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(part-meronym) study hall
6. a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting"
(hypernym) body
(hyponym) Ashcan School, Eight
7. a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
(synonym) shoal
(hypernym) animal group
(member-meronym) fish
Verb
1. educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
(hypernym) educate
(hyponym) home-school
(derivation) schooltime, school day
2. train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
(synonym) educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
(hypernym) polish, refine, fine-tune, down
(hyponym) sophisticate
3. swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
(hypernym) swim
(derivation) shoal

n. school, shoal

v. school

v. take shelter, hide, lurk

(v. t.)
To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
  

(v. t.)
To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
  

(n.)
The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
  

(n.)
An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
  

(n.)
A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
  

(n.)
A session of an institution of instruction.
  

(n.)
A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
  

(n.)
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.