Definition of "school"

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/skuːl/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural schools
1. (Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
2. (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
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  One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] 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.
  2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
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.
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  Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎
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.
9. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
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  His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
  1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman
10. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
verb
third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled
1. (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
2. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
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  A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
  1998 April 13, Leigh Jones, “National Bar Exam Methods Win in ADA Regulation Test”, in The Journal Record
  Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss […]
  2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan, page 67
  "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson.""This time I'm gonna school you."
  2007, Peter David, Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, page 216
  Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News.
  2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times‎
3. (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.

school²

/skuːl/

noun
plural schools
1. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
2. A multitude.
verb
third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled
1. (intransitive, of fish) To form into, or travel in, a school.

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