Definition of School

n.1.A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
1.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.
Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
- Acts xix. 9.
2.A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
As he sat in the school at his primer.
- Chaucer.
3.A session of an institution of instruction.
How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day?
- Shak.
4.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.
5.The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
6.An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
7.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.
8.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.
9.Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
Boarding school
etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc.
High school
a free public school nearest the rank of a college.
School board
a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district.
School committee
an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school purposes.
School days
the period in which youth are sent to school.
School district
a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools.
Sunday school
a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.
v. t.1.To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
[imp. & p. p. Schooled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Schooling.]
2.To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.


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