HOW TO PRONOUNCE
school
/skul/
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What does school mean?
noun
- An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
- An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
More meanings (13)
noun
- Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
- An art movement, a community of artists.
- The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
- The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
- The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
- The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
- An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
- A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
- A multitude.
verb
- To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
- To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- To control, or compose, one’s expression.
- To form into, or travel in, a school.
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See this word in context.
Being sick was all very well, but Thea knew from experience that starting back to school again was attended by depressing difficulties.
Anne walked through it on her way to school with reverent steps and worshiping eyes, as if she trod on holy ground.
More book examples (3)
Then Tom marched out of the house and over the hills and far away, to return to school no more that day.
“Yes. I paid my way through the high school in Onabasha with them. Now I am starting a collection which means college.”
“I am the ugliest child in the school,” she had said once, after staring at herself in the glass for some minutes.