school

Meanings

Noun

• A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
• A multitude.
• 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.
• 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.

Verb

• (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• shoal
• academy, college, university
• college, department, faculty, institute

Origin

• From Middle English scole, schole, from Middle Dutch scole ("multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals"), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola, from Proto-Germanic *skulō ("crowd"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- ("crowd, people"). Cognate with Middle Low German schōle ("multitude, troop"), Old English scolu ("troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish"). shoal#Etymology 2, and shoal. Compare Hebrew השכלה ("*(s)cɑlɐ–education"), Hebrew אשכול ("*(s)kʷol–cluster").
• Image:Moye Elementary School.JPG|thumb|Elementary school
• From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl, from Proto-Germanic *skōla, from Late Latin schola, scola, from Ancient Greek σχολεῖον, from σχολή, from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-. schola, and shul. Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school, German Low German School, Old High German scuola, Old Norse skóli.
• , Old English siġe, sigor.