Definition of schools Schools
/skuËlz/ - [skulz] - Schools
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- schools (Noun)
Plural of school.
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| school - an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900" | ||
| educational institution an institution dedicated to education | ||
| academy a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge | ||
| correspondence school a school that teaches nonresident students by mail | ||
| crammer a textbook designed for cramming | ||
| dancing school a school in which students learn to dance | ||
| direct-grant school formerly a school that charged tuition fees and also received government grants in return for admitting certain non-paying students who were nominated by the local authorities | ||
| driving school a school where people are taught to drive automobiles | ||
| finishing school a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities | ||
| flying school a school for teaching students to fly airplanes | ||
| grad school, graduate school a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree | ||
| language school a school for teaching foreign languages | ||
| nursing school, school of nursing a school for training nurses | ||
| religious school a school run by a religious body | ||
| riding school a school where horsemanship is taught and practiced | ||
| lycee, middle school, secondary school, gymnasium, lyceum a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12 | ||
| secretarial school a school where secretarial skills (typing and shorthand and filing etc) are taught | ||
| tech, technical school a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences | ||
| training school a school providing practical vocational and technical training | ||
| veterinary school a school teaching veterinary medicine | ||
| conservatory a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | ||
| faculty, staff one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | ||
| alma mater your alma mater is a school you graduated from | ||
| public school a tuition free school in the United States supported by taxes and controlled by a school board | ||
| private school a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition | ||
| dance school a school where students are taught to dance | ||
| day school a school building without boarding facilities | ||
| night school a school that holds classes in the evenings for students who cannot attend during the day | ||
| sabbath school, sunday school school meeting on Sundays for religious instruction | ||
| elementary school, grade school, primary school, grammar school a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades | ||
| school - a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" | ||
| body the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" | ||
| ashcan school, eight a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life | ||
| deconstructivism a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | ||
| historical school a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms | ||
| pointillism a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France | ||
| art nouveau a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers | ||
| lake poets English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it | ||
| school - a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" | ||
| schoolhouse | ||
| edifice, building a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" | ||
| school system establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school | ||
| classroom, schoolroom a room in a school where lessons take place | ||
| conservatoire, conservatory a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | ||
| school - the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together" | ||
| schooltime, school day | ||
| period of time, time period, period an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | ||
| school - the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" | ||
| schooling | ||
| education the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) | ||
| school - a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" | ||
| shoal | ||
| animal group a group of animals | ||
| school - an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game" | ||
| educational institution an institution dedicated to education | ||
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| school - educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions" | ||
| educate give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better" | ||
| home-school educate (one's children) at home instead of sending (them) to a school; "The parents are home-schooling their daughter" | ||
| school - swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait" | ||
| swim move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through the soil where it lives" | ||
| school - teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" | ||
| educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise | ||
| fine-tune, polish, down, refine adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine" | ||
| sophisticate make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design" | ||
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Wiktionary
- school (Noun)
A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. - school (Noun)
An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution. - school (Noun)
An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education college or university. - school (Noun)
Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area. - school (Noun)
The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought . - school (Noun)
The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution. - school (Verb)
To form into, or travel in a school. - school (Verb)
To educate, teach, or train. - school (Verb)
To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson. - school (Verb)
To control, or compose, one's expression.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary đ
- school (n.)
A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. - 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.)
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 room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. - school (n.)
An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. - 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 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.)
Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. - 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.
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An institution or building at which children and young people receive education. -
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Group of a large number of fish (or other sea animals, such as dolphins or whales), normally from the same species, that swim together.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary đ
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skĹĹl, n. a place for instruction: an institution of learning, esp. for children: the pupils of a school: exercises for instruction: the disciples of a particular teacher, or those who hold a common doctrine: a large number of fish migrating together, a shoal: a system of training: any means of knowledge, esp. (mus.) a treatise teaching some particular branch of the art: a large hall in English universities, where the examinations for degrees, &c., are heldâhence, one of these examinations (gen. pl.) also the group of studies taken by a man competing for honours in these: a single department of a university: (pl.) the body of masters and students in a college.âv.t. to educate in a school: to instruct: to admonish, to discipline.âadj. Schoolâ˛able, of school age.âns. Schoolâ˛-board, a board of managers, elected by the ratepayers, whose duty it is to see that adequate means of education are provided for the children of a town or district; Schoolâ˛-boy, a boy attending a school: one learning the rudiments of a subject; Schoolâ˛-clerk, one versed in the learning of schools; Schoolâ˛-craft, learning; Schoolâ˛-dame, a schoolmistress.ân.pl. Schoolâ˛-days, the time of life during which one goes to school.âns. Schoolâ˛-divineâ˛; Schoolâ˛-divinâ˛ity, scholastic or seminary theology; Schoolâ˛-docâ˛tor, a schoolman; Schoolâ˛ery (Spens.), something taught, precepts; Schoolâ˛-fellâ˛ow, one taught at the same school: an associate at school; Schoolâ˛girl a girl attending school.ân.pl. Schoolâ˛-hours, time spent at school in acquiring instruction.âns. Schoolâ˛-house, a house of discipline and instruction: a house used as a school: a schoolmaster's house; Schoolâ˛ing, instruction in school: tuition: the price paid for instruction: reproof, reprimand; Schoolâ˛-inspecâ˛tor, an official appointed to examine schools; Schoolâ˛-ma'am, a schoolmistress; Schoolâ˛-maid, a school-girl; Schoolâ˛man, one of the philosophers and theologians of the second half of the middle ages; Schoolâ˛master, the master or teacher of a school, a pedagogue:âfem. Schoolâ˛mistress, a woman who teaches or who merely governs a school; Schoolâ˛-mate, one who attends the same school; Schoolâ˛-name, an abstract term, an abstraction; Schoolâ˛-pence, a small sum paid for school-teaching; Schoolâ˛-point, a point for scholastic disputation; Schoolâ˛-room, a room for teaching in: school accommodation; Schoolâ˛-ship, a vessel used for teaching practical navigation.âadj. Schoolâ˛-taught, taught at school or in the schools.âns. Schoolâ˛-teachâ˛er, one who teaches in a school; Schoolâ˛-teachâ˛ing; Schoolâ˛-time, the time at which a school opens; Schoolâ˛-whale, one of a school of whales; Boardâ˛-school, a school under the control of a school-board.âGrammar school, High school, a school of secondary instruction, standing between the primary school and the university; National schools, those schools in Ireland which are under the commissioners of national education; Oxford school, a name given to that party which adopted the principles contained in the Tracts for the Times (cf. Tractarianism); Parochial schools, in Scotland, schools in every parish for general education; Primary school, a school for elementary instruction; Public school, an elementary or primary school: a school under the control of a school-board: an endowed classical school for providing a liberal education for such as can pay high for itâEton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse, St Paul's, and Merchant Taylorsâ˛, &c.; Ragged school, a free school for destitute children's education and often maintenance, supported by voluntary efforts; Sunday school, a school held on Sunday for religious instruction; TĂźbingen school, a rationalistic school of theologians founded by F. C. Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and Gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.âThe schoolmaster is abroad, a phrase of Brougham's implying that education and intelligence are now widely spread. [L. scholaâGr. scholÄ, leisure, a school.]
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A term applied to a shoal of any of the cetacean animals.
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School is a place (usually a building) where people are taught something. Today in most countries children have to go to school to learn basic things they will need to know in order to live in their following life. These things are taught in subjects. Each subject has its own knowledge to teach. For example: writing, reading, and calculating numbers (maths). Many schools also teach arts such as music and visual art, or humanities, like geography and history, or other languages, commonly English, French or Spanish. In some countries, you can study second, or third languages.
The students get an education in school. Students are children in school. Education is the word for the knowledge which they receive. The adults who teach the students are called teachers. The person who controls the school is a principal. Students sit for exams to test whether they are good enough.
There are many types of schools. The school which gives the highest level education is called a university. In middle school, high school, or university, the students may choose a class or classes. These options are called electives. The first level of school would be a nursery or kindergarten, or playschool. Then children go to primary school, or elementary school. Next, they go to high school, or secondary school. Lastly, they go to college, then finally, university.
Most children start school when they are between 4 and 7 years old. But nowadays more and more children are starting school-like activities at y
