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
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: 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 art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similar
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ity: the French school. | | | 15. | any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs. | | 16. | Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like. | | 17. | Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking. | | 18. | schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university. | | 19. | Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university. | –adjective | 20. | of or connected with a school or schools. | | 21. | Obsolete. of the schoolmen. | –verb (used with object) | 22. | to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train. | | 23. | Archaic. to reprimand. | |
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