Definitions for schooling

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schooling school·ing

Spelling: [skoo-ling]

IPA: /ˈsku lɪŋ/

Schooling is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in schooling (cghilnoos).

Definitions for schooling

noun

1. the process of being taught in a school.
2. instruction, education, or training, especially when received in a school.
3. the act of teaching.
4. Archaic. a reprimand.
5. an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age:
6. an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
7. a college or university.
8. a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction:
9. a session of such a course:
10. the activity or process of learning under instruction, especially at a school for the young:
11. one's formal education:
12. a building housing a school.
13. the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution:
14. a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose:
15. 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:
16. any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
17. the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.:
18. 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:
19. any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
20. Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier) the squad (school of the squad) or the like.
21. Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, especially for gambling or drinking.
22. schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
23. Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.
24. 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 schooling

First recorded in 1400-50, schooling is from the late Middle English word scoling. See school¹, -ing¹

Examples for schooling

He felt claustrophobic in the schooling system there, and needed to prove himself.

They lost years of education and had no schooling while detained in Iran.

And that finding was for all immigrants, not only illegal immigrants, who have on average just ten years of schooling.

Today its influence, felt in everything from schooling to law enforcement, permeates Saudi society.

"I need no schooling, colonel," said Fritz, a trifle haughtily.

It is a ghastly business, quite beyond words, this schooling.

If he never goes to school at all he had better have that lesson than all the schooling in the world.

Jim helped his mother run the farm and missed half his schooling.

I smuggled drugs to make money for them, to pay for their schooling, to secure their futures with good careers.

"Third," he answered, laconically, schooling his voice to indifference.