Definition of "schooling"

schooling

/ˈskuːlɪŋ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural schoolings
1. Training or instruction.
2. Institutional education; attendance of school.
  Quotations
  Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
  2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
3. (dressage) The training of a horse at dressage.
4. (obsolete) Discipline; reproof; reprimand.
  Quotations
  I thought the schooling as severe as the case merited
  1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], Rob Roy. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
5. (obsolete) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
verb
1. present participle and gerund of school