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school

UK/skuːl/ US/skuːɫ/ very common uk us
noun (7) verb (3)

noun

1.

an educational institution

  • “the school was founded in 1900”
2.

a building where young people receive education

  • “the school was built in 1932”
  • “he walked to school every morning”
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3.

the process of being formally educated at a school

  • “what will you do when you finish school?”
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4.

an educational institution''s faculty and students

  • “the school keeps parents informed”
  • “the whole school turned out for the game”
5.

the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session

  • “stay after school”
  • “he didn”
  • “;”
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6.

a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers

  • “the Venetian school of painting”
7.

a large group of fish

  • “a school of small glittering fish swam by”
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verb

1.

educate in or as if in a school

  • “The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions”
2.

train to be discriminative in taste or judgment

  • “Cultivate your musical taste”
  • “Train your tastebuds”
  • “She is well schooled in poetry”
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3.

swim in or form a large group of fish

  • “A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait”

Origin

From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlu, from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”). Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).

Phrases

  • academy school
  • after school special
  • after-school special
  • aided school
  • all-through school
  • alternative school
  • Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/36 § graduate school
  • Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/39 § high school
  • Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/46 § junior high school
  • Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/52 § middle school
  • Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/57 § normal school
  • Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/58 § open classroom school

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