Definition of school

noun (n)

• an educational institution (noun.group)

  Example:
  The school was founded in 1900.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a building where young people receive education (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: schoolhouse
  

  Example:
  The school was built in 1932.
  He walked to school every morning.
  

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• the process of being formally educated at a school (noun.cognition)

  Synonym: schooling
  

  Example:
  What will you do when you finish school?.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers (noun.group)

  Example:
  The Venetian school of painting.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session (noun.time)

  Synonym: school day, schooltime
  

  Example:
  Stay after school.
  He didn't miss a single day of school.
  When the school day was done we would walk home together.
  

  source: wordnet30
• an educational institution's faculty and students (noun.group)

  Example:
  The school keeps parents informed.
  The whole school turned out for the game.
  

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• a large group of fish (noun.group)

  Synonym: shoal
  

  Example:
  A school of small glittering fish swam by.
  

  source: wordnet30
• A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• 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. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• educate in or as if in a school (verb.social)

  Example:
  The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions.
  

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• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment (verb.social)

  Synonym: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train
  

  Example:
  She is well schooled in poetry.
  

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• swim in or form a large group of fish (verb.motion)

  Example:
  A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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