noun
An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
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.
At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
An art movement, a community of artists.
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.
verb
To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a 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: […]
To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
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 […]
To control, or compose, one’s expression.
She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
noun
A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
A multitude.