school

Meaning

Noun

1. An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
2. An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
3. At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
4. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
5. An art movement, a community of artists.
6. The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
7. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
8. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
9. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
10. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

Verb

1. To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
2. To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
3. To control, or compose, one’s expression.

Verb

To form into, or travel in, a school.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skuːl/

Etymology

From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlā, from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul.
Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Bavarian Schui (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).
Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).

Sentences

The school has an annual drama performance .

In high school she was voted Girl Most Likely to Succeed as an Actress .

East Prospect is served by the Eastern York School District .

My tax dollars pay for those public school proms .

She attended the local fee paying Saint Columba's School .

Grays Prairie is served by the Scurry-Rosser Independent School District .

Wolff attended Shirley House Preparatory School and Beaumont College in Windsor , England .