Definitions for Schools

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Schools school

Spelling: [skool]

IPA: /skul/

Schools is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in Schools (chlooss).

Definitions for Schools

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 Schools

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

Examples for Schools

While preaching D.A.R.E. in schools, we made a drug out of external validation.

The Board of Education committed the entire management of the schools to him.

There are plenty of boys' schools, too, but the university is the university.

Is it not abominable, the way these schools of St. Cyr and the Paris military are run?

“This is a federal mandate that is causing some real problems for schools across the country,” Kline told a CBS affiliate in July.

A former superintendent of Milwaukee schools, he is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at Marquette University.

Our children are watching in schools throughout our great land.

Paying for all those pensions inevitably means less money for parks and schools.

They did not belong to the class who can be beguiled into evening schools.

Parents are talking about it, schools are talking about it, even kids themselves are talking about it.