School
[skuːl] or [skul]
Definition
(noun.) a building where young people receive education; 'the school was built in 1932'; 'he walked to school every morning'.
(noun.) the process of being formally educated at a school; 'what will you do when you finish school?'.
(noun.) a large group of fish; 'a school of small glittering fish swam by'.
(noun.) a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; 'the Venetian school of painting'.
(noun.) an educational institution; 'the school was founded in 1900'.
(noun.) an educational institution's faculty and students; 'the school keeps parents informed'; 'the whole school turned out for the game'.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) swim in or form a large group of fish; 'A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait'.
(verb.) educate in or as if in a school; 'The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions'.
Typist: Nathaniel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
(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.
(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 session of an institution of instruction.
(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.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
(n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
(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.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
(v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
(v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
Edited by Everett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Seminary, academy, institute, gymnasium, place of education.[2]. Sect, class, denomination.
v. a. [1]. Instruct, teach, educate, train, drill, exercise, indoctrinate.[2]. Tutor, discipline, control, govern, bring under subjection.
Checked by Freda
Definition
n. a place for instruction: an institution of learning esp. for children: the pupils of a school: exercises for instruction: the disciples of a particular teacher or those who hold a common doctrine: a large number of fish migrating together a shoal: a system of training: any means of knowledge esp. (mus.) a treatise teaching some particular branch of the art: a large hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees &c. are held—hence one of these examinations (gen. pl.) also the group of studies taken by a man competing for honours in these: a single department of a university: (pl.) the body of masters and students in a college.—v.t. to educate in a school: to instruct: to admonish to discipline.—adj. School′able of school age.—ns. School′-board a board of managers elected by the ratepayers whose duty it is to see that adequate means of education are provided for the children of a town or district; School′-boy a boy attending a school: one learning the rudiments of a subject; School′-clerk one versed in the learning of schools; School′-craft learning; School′-dame a schoolmistress.—n.pl. School′-days the time of life during which one goes to school.—ns. School′-divine′; School′-divin′ity scholastic or seminary theology; School′-doc′tor a schoolman; School′ery (Spens.) something taught precepts; School′-fell′ow one taught at the same school: an associate at school; School′girl a girl attending school.—n.pl. School′-hours time spent at school in acquiring instruction.—ns. School′-house a house of discipline and instruction: a house used as a school: a schoolmaster's house; School′ing instruction in school: tuition: the price paid for instruction: reproof reprimand; School′-inspec′tor an official appointed to examine schools; School′-ma'am a schoolmistress; School′-maid a school-girl; School′man one of the philosophers and theologians of the second half of the middle ages; School′master the master or teacher of a school a pedagogue:—fem. School′mistress a woman who teaches or who merely governs a school; School′-mate one who attends the same school; School′-name an abstract term an abstraction; School′-pence a small sum paid for school-teaching; School′-point a point for scholastic disputation; School′-room a room for teaching in: school accommodation; School′-ship a vessel used for teaching practical navigation.—adj. School′-taught taught at school or in the schools.—ns. School′-teach′er one who teaches in a school; School′-teach′ing; School′-time the time at which a school opens; School′-whale one of a school of whales; Board′-school a school under the control of a school-board.—Grammar school High school a school of secondary instruction standing between the primary school and the university; National schools those schools in Ireland which are under the commissioners of national education; Oxford school a name given to that party which adopted the principles contained in the Tracts for the Times (cf. Tractarianism); Parochial schools in Scotland schools in every parish for general education; Primary school a school for elementary instruction; Public school an elementary or primary school: a school under the control of a school-board: an endowed classical school for providing a liberal education for such as can pay high for it—Eton Harrow Rugby Winchester Westminster Shrewsbury Charterhouse St Paul's and Merchant Taylors′ &c.; Ragged school a free school for destitute children's education and often maintenance supported by voluntary efforts; Sunday school a school held on Sunday for religious instruction; T黚ingen school a rationalistic school of theologians founded by F. C. Baur (1792-1860) which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and Gentile party the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.—The schoolmaster is abroad a phrase of Brougham's implying that education and intelligence are now widely spread.
Checker: Walter
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a high school, foretells ascension to more elevated positions in love, as well as social and business affairs. For a young woman to be suspended from a high school, foretells she will have troubles in social circles.
To attend a riding school, foretells some friend will act falsely by you, but you will throw off the vexing influence occasioned by it.
To dream of attending school, indicates distinction in literary work. If you think you are young and at school as in your youth, you will find that sorrow and reverses will make you sincerely long for the simple trusts and pleasures of days of yore. To dream of teaching a school, foretells that you will strive for literary attainments, but the bare necessities of life must first be forthcoming. To visit the schoolhouse of your childhood days, portends that discontent and discouraging incidents overshadows the present.
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Examples
- The girl refused; and for the first time, and to the astonishment of the majestic mistress of the school. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When that man was a boy, he went to Westminster School. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the grammar-school, and a towardly child. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- All through school hours I make mistakes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I am less unfit to teach in a school than in a family. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For the pupil has a body, and brings it to school along with his mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Even the subsidy by rulers of privately conducted schools must be carefully safeguarded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Yet though Akbar made no general educational scheme for India, he set up a number of Moslem and Hindu schools. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There are such schools but thou dost not need that schooling. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This was so because there were no great priestly schools in Greece. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Introduced into the schools they would do their work, even if the sensational theory about the way in which they did it was quite wrong. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Nalanda and Taxilla seem to have been considerable educational centres as early as the opening of the schools of Athens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In England, the public schools are much less corrupted than the universities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There are such schools but thou dost not need that schooling. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His only schooling was received in an elementary insti tution in Oxfordshire. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Everything that makes schooling merely preparatory (See ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I have never been unfaithful to you or your schooling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My schooling first impelled her towards books; and, if music had been the food of sorrow, the productions of the wise became its medicine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My schooling was paid for; it was a bargain; and when I came away, the bargain ended. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I don't deny,' added Bitzer, 'that my schooling was cheap. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- And as he strode on his way before the supposed friar, Front-de-Boeuf thus schooled him in the part which he desired he should act. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Even in present-day societies, it furnishes the basic nurture of even the most insistently schooled youth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Melville