School

Meaning

(India, Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution..

Definitions by Sense

1. (India, Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
2. (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
3. (UK) 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. (considered collectively) 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.

Example Sentences

Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.

Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.

One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools, said the report, as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. […] In Syria, 3,900 schools have been destroyed, damaged or occupied for purposes other than education since the start of the conflict over two years ago.

Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.

We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.

The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.

These economists belong to the monetarist school.

Let no man be leſſe confident in his holy faith […] by reason of any difference of judgement vvhich is in the ſeveral Schools of Chriſtians concerning the effects and conſequent bleſſings of this Sacrament.

Word Forms

• schools
• schole
• schooling
• schooled
• skull

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Use school when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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