California Definition–noun | 1. | a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 23,668,562; 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif. | | 2. | Gulf of, an arm of the Pacific Ocean, extending NW between the coast of W Mexico and the peninsula of Lower California. ab. 750 mi. (1207 km) long; 62,600 sq. mi. (162,100 sq. km). | |
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School Definition–noun | 1. | an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school. | | 2. | an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field. | | 3. | a college or university. | | 4. | a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school. | | 5. | a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school. | | 6. | the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school. | | 7. | one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school. | | 8. | a building housing a school. | | 9. | the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium. | | 10. | a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture. | | 11. | a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school. | | 12. | any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything. | | 13. | the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy. | | 14. | Art. | a. | a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school. | | b. | the
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