school

a school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not

a thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field

nl-noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

scholen (plural)
schooltje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: skool (see there for further descendants)

Berbice Creole Dutch: skul, sulu

Negerhollands: skoel, skool

Petjo: skola, sekola

→ Aukan: sikoo

→? Caribbean Hindustani: skul

→ Kwinti: skoro, skoo

→ Lokono: sulu

→ Papiamentu: skol, skool

→ Saramaccan: sikoò

desctree

→ Sranan Tongo: skoro
→ Dutch: skorro
→ Wayana: sikoro

→ Trió: sikora

From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of skorro.


school

a school, group of fish or other aquatic animals

From Middle Dutch schōle, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).


school

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


school

Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.

Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.

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

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:

educational institution
educational institution

(British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).

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

(UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

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

Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

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.

An art movement, a community of artists.

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.

1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Nature, Excellencies, Uses and Intention of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Sect[ion] V. Practical Conclusions from the Preceding Discourses.”, in The Worthy Communicant or A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper […], London: […] R. Norton for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas […], published 1661, →OCLC, pages 90–91:

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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.

I’ll see you after school.

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.

He was a gentleman of the old school.

His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.

1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman:

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.

en-noun

school (countable and uncountable, plural schools)

nursery school

Australian Kriol: skul

Bislama: skul

Nigerian Pidgin: skul

Tok Pisin: skul, sikul

Pijin: skul

→ Maori: kura

→ Swahili: skule, skuli

шко́ла

specialised, e.g. music, language school

an institution dedicated to teaching and learning before college or university

departement

a department/institute at a college or university

leer

(collectively) the followers of a particular doctrine

шко́ла

an establishment offering specialized instruction (driving etc.)

From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul.
Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).
Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).

cog

German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Sieg</i>

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 542. School

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/36 § graduate school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/39 § high school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/46 § junior high school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/52 § middle school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/57 § normal school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/58 § open classroom school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/65 § preparatory school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/67 § public school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/75 § secondary school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/80 § special school

Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/83 § summer school


school

Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.

I tooke delights / In plucking Apples from t’Heſperian Trees, / Which Eating, I grew Learn’d: adde to All theſe / My Priuate Readings, which more School’d my Soule, / Then Tutors, when they ſternliest did Controll / With Frownes or Rods: […]

1620, Tho[mas] Dekker, “The Worme of Conscience”, in Dekker His Dreame. In Which, Beeing Rapt with a Poeticall Enthusiasme, the Great Volumes of Heauen and Hell to Him Were Opened, in Which He Read Many Wonderfull Things., London: Nicholas Okes, →OCLC, page 35:

(transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).

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, →ISBN, 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, →ISSN:

(transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.

(transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.

en-verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

schools (present singular third-person)
schooling (participle present)
schooled (participle past)
schooled (past)


school

The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.

(collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Frankish *skolu, 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”). Doublet of shoal.


school

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