School

Noun

 * 1) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
 * The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.

Verb

 * 1)  To form into, or travel in a school.

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
 * Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
 * ''Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
 * 1)  An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
 * 2) Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
 * We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
 * 1)  The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
 * These economists belong to the monetarist school.
 * 1) The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
 * I'll see you after school.

Synonyms

 * academy, college, university
 * college, department, further education college, institute
 * shoal

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:school

Derived terms

 * boarding school
 * comprehensive school
 * cram school
 * elementary school
 * grade school
 * grammar school
 * high school
 * infant school
 * junior high school
 * junior school
 * magnet school
 * middle school
 * nursery school
 * old school
 * prep school
 * primary school
 * private school
 * public school
 * school age
 * school band
 * schoolbook


 * schoolboy
 * schoolchild
 * school day
 * schoolfellow
 * schoolfriend
 * schoolgirl


 * school holidays
 * schoolma'am
 * schoolmaster
 * schoolmistress
 * school night
 * school’s out
 * schoolwork
 * secondary modern school
 * secondary school
 * state school
 * Sunday school
 * upper school

Verb

 * 1)  To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)
 * Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
 * 1)  To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
 * 2) * 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,
 * A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
 * 1) * 2007, Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416527214, pg. 216,
 * "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."
 * "This time I'm gonna school you."
 * 1)  To control, or compose, one's expression.
 * She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
 * She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.

Derived terms

 * schooling

Adjectives for School
vigorous; trivial; hostile; hungering; monastic; cursory; archaeological; law; creditable; fashionable; eclectic; spasmodic; collegiate; skill-contending; elaborate; up-to-date; hard-boiled; realistic; red-brick; immemorial; illustrious; foremost; decadent; haggard; magazine; formal; parochial; consummate; evolutionary; subordinate; toilful; celebrated.

Verbs for School
approve—; attend—; bar from—; disband —; endow—; enroll in—; enter—; exclude from—; expel from—; father—; foster—: found—; graduate from—; impair—; join —; maintain—; rank—; rate—; revisit—; —attracts; —designates; —examines; — nourishes;  —prepares;   —suspends;   — thrives.

Thesaurus
American, Art Nouveau, Ashcan school, Barbizon, Bauhaus, Bolognese, British, Cobra, Dutch, Flemish, Fontainebleau, French, Italian, Mannerist, Milanese, Modenese, Momentum, Neapolitan, New York, Paduan, Parisian, Phases, Pre-Raphaelite, Raphaelite, Reflex, Restany, Roman, Scottish, Sienese, Spur, Suprematism, The Ten, Tuscan, Umbrian, Venetian, Washington, Weltanschauung, academic, adherents, advance, affiliation, approach, army, art schools, articles of religion, body, branch, broaden the mind, bunch, catechism, catechize, church, circle, civilize, class, classroom, clique, coach, college, collegiate, colony, communion, community, confession, control, coterie, credenda, credo, creed, cult, cultivate, demonstrate, denomination, direct, disciples, discipline, division, doctrinal statement, dogma, drift, drill, drive, drove, eclectic, edify, educate, educational institution, enlighten, equip, extramural, faction, faith, fashion, fellowship, flock, followers, form, formulated belief, gam, gang, genre, give instruction, give lessons in, gospel, ground, group, groups, guide, herd, host, ideology, illumine, inculcate, indoctrinate, inform, institute, instruct, interscholastic, intramural, ism, junior high school, kennel, kind, kindergarten, lead, lines, litter, manage, manner, middle school, mould, movement, offshoot, open the eyes, opinion, order, organization, pack, party, pencil, persuasion, philosophy, plein-air, pod, political faith, political philosophy, prepare, preschool, pride, prime, principles, private school, public school, ready, reeducate, religion, religious order, schism, scholastic, sect, sectarism, segment, seminary, set, set right, shape, sharpen the wits, shoal, show, show how, skulk, sloth, society, style, system of belief, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, teaching, the grand style, train, trip, troop, tutor, university, variety, version, view, way of life, world view

Etymology 1
From schole:, from  scole:, from  scola:, skola:, from, from. Cognate with schole:,  scolu:. More at shoal.

Etymology 2
From scole:, from  scol:, from  schola:, scola:, from  σχολεῖον:, from σχολή:, from. Cognate with sigi:,  sige:, sigor:. Influenced in some senses by schole:, from  scole:. See school1. Compare also skule:, schule:,  scuola:,  skóli:.

Noun

 * Armenian: (vtaṙ)
 * Breton: moudenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 一群魚 (yī qún yú), 一群鱼 (yī qún yú)
 * Danish: stime
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:


 * Interlingua: banco
 * Japanese: 群れ (むれ, mure); 魚群 (ぎょぐん, gyogun)
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:

Noun

 * Afrikaans: skool
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܡܕܪܫܬܐ
 * Armenian: (dproc')
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: eskola, ikastola, ikastetxe
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: বিদ্যালয়
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: escola
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: suku
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: სკოლა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: विद्यालय, स्कूल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: schola
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: សាលារៀន
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmancî: dibistan, fêrgeh , xwendingeh , qutabxane , medrese , mekteb , perwerdegeh
 * Soranî: ,


 * Lao:
 * Latin:, ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Schüler
 * Macedonian: училиште,
 * Malay: ,
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: yachay wasi
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: विद्यालय
 * Scots: schuil
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: школа
 * Roman: škola
 * Sicilian: scola
 * Sinhalese: ඉස්කෝලය
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: sekolo
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: eskuwelahan, paaralan
 * Tamil: பள்ளி (paḷḷi)
 * Telugu: బడి (baDi), పాఠశాల (paaThaSaala), విద్యాలయం (vidyaalayam)
 * Tetum: eskola
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: سکول, اسکول
 * Uyghur: مەكتەپ
 * Vietnamese:, trường học
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ,


 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian: (dproc')
 * Croatian:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 学校 (がっこう, gakkō)


 * Pashto:
 * Romanian: școală medie, gimnaziu
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: skola
 * Ukrainian:


 * Afrikaans: kollege, universiteit
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: (kolíya),  (jámʕa)
 * Bosnian: fakultet, akademija , koledž (college), univerzitet  (university)
 * Breton: skol-veur skol-meur
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: escola
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Skole
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: egyetem (university), főiskola (college)
 * Ido: skolo
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: schola
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 大学 (だいがく, daigaku), 学校 (がっこう, gakkō)
 * Korean: 학교 (hakgyo)


 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay: kolej, universiti
 * Maltese: università, istitut, kulleġġ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ;
 * Romanian:, universitate, facultate, colegiu
 * Russian: высшая школа, высшее учебное заведение,, , , консерватория, , техникум,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgoil
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: факултет, академија , колеџ (college), универзитет  (university)
 * Roman: fakultet, akademija , koledž (college), univerzitet  (university)
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: (college),  (university), lärosäte
 * Tagalog: pamantasan
 * Telugu: పాఠశాల (paaTaSaala), విద్యాలయం (vidyaalayam)
 * Thai: (wít-tá-yaa-lai)
 * Ukrainian: вища школа (výšča škóla), вищий навчальний заклад (výščyj navčál'nyj základ) , університет (universitét) , академія (akadémija) , інститут (instytút) , консерваторія (konservatórija) , коледж (kolédž) , технікум (téxnikum) , училище (učýlyšče)
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans: departement
 * Arabic: (qísim)
 * Armenian: (fakultet)
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: kevrenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: escola
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Skole
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, פקולטה
 * Ido: skolo
 * Indonesian: fakultas
 * Interlingua: schola
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 大学 (だいがく, daigaku), 学校 (がっこう, gakkō)
 * Korean: 학교 (hakgyo)
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay: fakulti
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgoil
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: катедра, факултет
 * Roman: katedra, fakultet
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pakultad, departamento, sangay, institusyon, kagawaran
 * Thai: (win yaa lai)
 * Ukrainian: факультет (fakul’tét), відділення (viddíleña)
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans: leer, skool
 * Arabic: (madrása)
 * Armenian: (dproc')
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: skol, skolioù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: escola
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: skolo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אסכולה
 * Ido: skolo
 * Interlingua: schola


 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 大学院 (だいがくいん, daigakuin)
 * Korean: 학교 (hakgyo)
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgoil
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: школа
 * Roman: škola
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, , skolbildning
 * Tagalog: aktitud, aral, turo
 * Thai: (rohng rian)
 * Turkish: ekol
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * Afrikaans: skool
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Breton: skoliata, kelenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: εκπαιδεύω, διαπαιδαγωγώ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Interlingua: educar, instruer, inseniar


 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:, , ,
 * Portuguese: educar, instruir, ensinar, escolarizar
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: школовати, школати, обучавати
 * Roman: školovati, školati, obučavati
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: magturo, turuan, sanayin
 * Ukrainian: навчати (navčáty)

Noun

 * 1) school (An educational institution that focuses completely on education, and not on, say, research)
 * 2) a group of fish

Derived terms

 * basisschool
 * hogeschool
 * kleuterschool
 * lagere school
 * middelbare school
 * schoolbord
 * schoolplein
 * toneelschool