school

school

school¹ [sko͞ol]

n.

[ME scole < OE scol < L schola, school < Gr scholē, leisure, that in which leisure is employed, discussion, philosophy, school < IE base * seĝh-, to hold fast, overcome > SCHEME]

1. a place or institution for teaching and learning; establishment for education; specif.,

a) an institution for teaching children

b) a place for training and instruction in some special field, skill, etc. [a dancing school ]

☆ c) a college or university

d) [S-] in the Middle Ages, a seminary of logic, metaphysics, and theology

2. the building or buildings, classrooms, laboratories, etc. of any such establishment

3. all the students, or pupils, and teachers at any such establishment

4. the period of instruction at any such establishment; regular session of teaching [the date when school begins]

5.

a) attendance at a school [to miss school for a week]

b) the process of formal training and instruction at a school; formal education; schooling

6. any situation, set of circumstances, or experience through which one gains knowledge, training, or discipline [the school of hard knocks]

7. a particular division of an institution of learning, esp. of a university [the school of law]

8.

a) a group of people held together by the same teachings, beliefs, opinions, methods, etc.; followers or disciples of a particular teacher, leader, or creed [the Impressionist school]

b) a group of artists associated with a specified place [the Barbizon School]

9. a way of life; style of customs, manners, etc. [a gentleman of the old school]

vt.

1. to train, as at school; teach; instruct; educate

2. to discipline or control [schooled herself in composure]

3. Archaic to reprimand

adj.

1. of a school or schools

2. Obs. of the Schoolmen (see SCHOOLMAN, sense 1)

SYN.- TEACH

school² [sko͞ol]

n.

[Du, a crowd, school of fish: see SHOAL¹]

a large number of fish or water animals of the same kind swimming or feeding together

vi.

to move together in a school, as fish, whales, etc.