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School

noun

An educational institution.

A building where young people receive education. Synonym: schoolhouse. "He walked to school every morning"

The process of being formally educated at a school. Synonym: schooling.

A body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers.

The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session. Synonyms: school day, schooltime. "He didn't miss a single day of school" , "When the school day was done we would walk home together"

An educational institution's faculty and students. "The whole school turned out for the game"

A large group of fish. Synonym: shoal.

verb

(past & past part. schooled; pres. part. schooling)

Educate in or as if in a school.

Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment. Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train. "Train your tastebuds" , "She is well schooled in poetry"

Swim in or form a large group of fish.

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"School" Quotes from Famous Books

... declined by Messrs. Tierney, Huskisson, and Sturges Bourne; but finally accepted by Mr. Hemes, who had been secretary of the treasury under Lord Liverpool's administration. The nomination of Mr. Herries, who was brought up in the Vansittart school, was well nigh the cause of breaking up the cabinet. The Whigs objected to him on political grounds; and the Marquis of Lansdowne waited upon the king to tender his resignation. His chief objection, however, was, that he ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... won't be any next time. But do you consider the world such a school of morals; then? I supposed it was a very ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... aged 32. Public school and university education, in which he did well. From age of 6 or 7 had strong sexual emotions, and from 9 sexually pleasurable dreams, though no emission till 12 or 13. He remembers the association of sexual excitement with whipping, ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... was six years old, his father sent him to the public school in Sequoia with the children of his loggers and mill-hands, thus laying the foundation for a democratic education all too infrequent with the sons of men rated as millionaires. At night old Cardigan ...

— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne

... courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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