School: English to English |
School (n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. |
School (n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. |
School (n.) A session of an institution of instruction. |
School (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. |
School (n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. |
School (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. |
School (n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. |
School (n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. |
School (n.) The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. |
School (n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. |
School (v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. |
School (v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. |