Definitions for School

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School school

Spelling: [skool]

IPA: /skul/

School is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in School (chloos).

Definitions for School

noun

1. an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age:
2. an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
3. a college or university.
4. a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction:
5. a session of such a course:
6. the activity or process of learning under instruction, especially at a school for the young:
7. one's formal education:
8. a building housing a school.
9. the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution:
10. a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose:
11. a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education:
12. any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
13. the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.:
14. Art. a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity:
15. any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
16. Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier) the squad (school of the squad) or the like.
17. Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, especially for gambling or drinking.
18. schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
19. Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.
20. a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.

adjective

1. of or connected with a school or schools.
2. Obsolete. of the schoolmen.

verb (used with object)

1. to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
2. Archaic. to reprimand.

verb (used without object)

1. to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.

Origin of School

before 900; Middle English scole (noun), Old English scōl Latin schola Greek scholḗ leisure employed in learning

Examples for School

Ramos would help set the tone of the day when he greeted the arriving students outside the school.

Many times, victims drop out of school, while their alleged attackers graduate.

He used to drive her to school once he came home from the Marines.

The NYPD remained his ultimate goal as he went to work as a carrier for Airborne Express/DHL and then as a school safety officer.

One was a Quaker school, whose name he can no longer recall, in upstate New York.

Small boys and girls, returning from school, were beginning to play.

The school was under the head-mastership of "the terrific Dr. Keate."

She had boasted to him once of having learned to smoke at school.

“Thou art a big fellow for a school,” said his uncle, looking him over.

The moral discipline of the school was also called in question.