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   School

   /sko͞ol/

   

   noun

   • 1. an institution for educating children: "Ryder's children did not go to school at all" Similar educational institutioncenter of learningacademycollegealma materrare:phrontistery
   • ▪ the buildings used by an institution for educating children: "the cost of building a new school"
   • ▪ the students and staff of a school: "the principal was addressing the whole school"
   • ▪ a day's work at school: "school started at 7 a.m"
   • 2. any institution at which instruction is given in a particular discipline: "a dancing school"
   • ▪ a university: informal North American "Harvard is certainly not a loafer's school"
   • ▪ a department or faculty of a college concerned with a particular subject of study: "the School of Dental Medicine" Similar departmentfacultydivision
   • 3. a group of people, particularly writers, artists, or philosophers, sharing the same or similar ideas, methods, or style: "the Frankfurt school of critical theory" Similar groupsetcirclecliquefactionsectfollowersfollowingdisciplesapostlespupilsstudentsadmirersdevoteesvotariesproponentsadherentsimitatorscopiersemulatorsrare:epigones
   • ▪ a style, approach, or method of a specified character: "filmmakers are tired of the skin-deep school of cinema" Similar way of thinkingschool of thoughtpersuasioncreedcredodoctrinebelieffaithoutlookopinionpoint of viewdenominationapproachmethodstyleinformal:ism

   verb

   • 1. send to school; educate: "he was schooled in Boston" Similar educateteachinstruct
   • ▪ train or discipline (someone) in a particular skill or activity: "he schooled her in horsemanship" Similar trainteachtutorcoachinstructupskilldrilldisciplinedirectguidepreparegroommoldshapeformprimeverseindoctrinateinculcate

   Word Origin Old Englishscōl, scolu, via Latin from Greek skholē ‘leisure, philosophy, lecture place’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French escole.

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