school
noun
1. an educational institution
- the school was founded in 1900
Definition categories: group
2. a building where young people receive education
- the school was built in 1932
- he walked to school every morning
Similar word(s): schoolhouse
Definition categories: man–made, building, edifice
3. the process of being formally educated at a school
- what will you do when you finish school?
Similar word(s): schooling
Definition categories: thought, education
4. a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
- the Venetian school of painting
Definition categories: group, body
5. 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
Similar word(s): schooltime
Definition categories: time, period
6. an educational institution's faculty and students
- the school keeps parents informed
- the whole school turned out for the game
Definition categories: group
7. a large group of fish
- a school of small glittering fish swam by
Similar word(s): shoal
Definition categories: group
Sentences with school as a noun:
- The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
- Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
- Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
- Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
- We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
- These economists belong to the monetarist school.
- I'll see you after school.
- He was a gentleman of the old school.
verb
1. educate in or as if in a school
- The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions
Definition categories: social, educate
2. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- She is well schooled in poetry
Similar word(s): civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train
Definition categories: social, down, polish, refine
3. swim in or form a large group of fish
- A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait
Definition categories: motion, swim
Sentences with school as a verb:
- Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
- She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.