Can you please give me the deffenition of the word school?

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Answer 1

An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.
An institution for instruction in a skill or business: a secretarial school; a karate school.

A college or university.
An institution within or associated with a college or university that gives instruction in a specialized field and recommends candidates for degrees.
A division of an educational institution constituting several grades or classes: advanced to the upper school.
The student body of an educational institution.
The building or group of buildings housing an educational institution.
The process of being educated formally, especially education constituting a planned series of courses over a number of years: The children were put to school at home. What do you plan to do when you finish school?
A session of instruction: School will start in three weeks. He had to stay after school today.

A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief: the school of Aristotle; the Venetian school of painters.
A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions: aristocrats of the old school.
Close-order drill instructions or exercises for military units or personnel.
Australian. A group of people gathered together for gambling.

Answer 2

An institution designed to maintain social conformity through the education of the masses.

Answer 3

There are two meanings.
(1) Large shoal of fish; shoal of whales.
(2) Institution where the young are educated;

Answer 4

It is usually quite a big building with lots of classrooms where, among other things, they teach you how to spell words such as definition.

Answer 5

place of hell that evil grown ups send you to so they can have a break.

Answer 6

are these enough?
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Definitions of school on the Web:

* an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"
* a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"
* the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?"
* an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"
* educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
* the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together"
* a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting"
* educate: train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
* a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
* swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* A school is most commonly a place designated for learning. The range of institutions covered by the term varies from country to country.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School

* Tatsuya Furukawa's moniker whenever he makes rock songs alongside Hideo Suwa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_(band)

* The term swarm (schooling or swarming) is applied to fish, birds and insects and describes a behavior of an aggregation () of animals of similar size and body orientation, generally cruising in the same direction.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_(biology)

* A school is a collection or group of people who share common characteristics of either outlook (a school of thought or a school of belief) or practice (such as a school of painters).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_(discipline)

* A group of fish which swim together, usually composed of the same species or sub-species.
www.aqualink.com/basic/zglossa.html

* a group of artists who have a common style which may come from geographic, movement, period or other attribute.
www.worldimages.com/art_glossary.php

* A division of the school system consisting of students in one or more grades or other identifiable groups and organized to give instruction of a defined type. One school may share a building with another school or one school may be housed in several buildings.
nces.ed.gov/programs/projections/appendix_D.asp

* This is an academic organisational unit, sometimes also called a department. A Faculty can be constituted of several schools eg. the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has 13 schools including the School of Philosophy and the School of History.
www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/glossary.html

* Schools are operational units of the University which carry out teaching, research and scholarship functions.
www.vuw.ac.nz/home/glossary/

* A work executed in that country or in the traditional manner of that country
www.boosgallery.com/terms.htm

* Usually elementary, middle, or high schools. Also a catch-all term for any place of education eg, law school, graduate school.
www.lindentours.com/int_students/glossary.shtml

* A small or large group of fish swimming together. Fish can work together to trap prey or protect themselves from predators.
www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/glossary_qz.htm

* means an independent academic unit within the University created by the Council, for teaching or research, under the Act of the University.
www.sudan.net/uk/add.htm

* At an Australian university the term “school” refers to an academic unit (eg the School of Humanities). The term is never used to refer to the university itself. Australian students attending universities never refer to themselves as attending school, nor do they refer to the university as “my school”.
www.aeo.us/students/terms.html

* The Milesian school of philosophy refers to that group of pre-Socratic philosophers who lived on the coast of what is now western Turkey (the Ionian coast). The term Milesian comes from the name of the city Miletus , about thirty miles south of the city of Ephesus. ( Miletus is where the Apostle Paul met the Ephesian elders on his journey back to Jerusalem after his third missionary journey (Acts 20:17)). ...
www.apologetics.org/glossary.html

* Complete name of the LCME-accredited US school of medicine
www.aamc.org/data/ocd/fielddefinitions.htm

* A major school that takes the Lotus Sutra as its principal text. Historically, it has had a close relationship with Pure Land. See also "Lotus Sutra."
www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/buddhism/mindseal/glossary.html

* means a registered secondary or composite school classified by the Ministry of Education to provide secondary education that is:
www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/acrp/secondary/definitions.html

* A group of one kind of fish oriented together in a synchronized fashion, with uniform distance between individual fishes, traveling at the same speed and/or oriented in the same direction and position.
www.aquahobby.com/articles/e_glossary.php

* A grouping of a number of related disciplines. For Example the disciplines of History, Jewish Civilisation, Archaeology, and Religion and Theology are grouped together to form the School of Historical Studies .
www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/enrolments/glossary.html

* Any institution or person offering training or educational services to the public.
nesara.org/main/dictionary.htm

* Officially an institution of Education, but to many a place of dread.
www.embassy.org.nz/encycl/s2encyc.htm

* shall mean an academic School as constituted by the Senate and the Board of Governors.
communications.uwo.ca/facultyrelations/agreement/definitions.html

* a group of fishes moving together and behaving in a co-ordinated manner.
www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/action/fish/15.html

* building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
www.charttiff.com/place_names.shtml

* Academic and administrative unit which offers a professional training program (eg School of Translation and Interpretation, School of Nursing).
www.uottawa.ca/academic/info/regist/lex_e.html

* a group of the same kind of fish that are swimming together
library.thinkquest.org/J0110481/gloss.html

* a large group of fish that swim as a unit
www.kentuckyawake.org/templates/glossary/

* a group of artists with common interests
www.huntington.org/Education/lessons/SG-vocab1.htm

Answer 7

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school1  /skul/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skool] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school.
2. an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
3. a college or university.
4. a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.
5. a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.
6. the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.
7. one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.
8. a building housing a school.
9. the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.
10. a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture.
11. a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school.
12. any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
13. the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.
14. Art. a. a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school.
b. the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.

15. any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
16. Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like.
17. Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking.
18. schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
19. Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.
–adjective 20. of or connected with a school or schools.
21. Obsolete. of the schoolmen.
–verb (used with object) 22. to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
23. Archaic. to reprimand.


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[Origin: bef. 900; ME scole (n.), OE scōl < L schola < Gk schol leisure employed in learning]

—Related forms
school‧a‧ble, adjective
schoolless, adjective
schoollike, adjective
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school2  /skul/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skool] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
–verb (used without object) 2. to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.


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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME schol(e) < D school; c. OE scolu troop; see shoal2]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source new! school1 (skl) Pronunciation Key
n.
An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.
An institution for instruction in a skill or business: a secretarial school; a karate school.

A college or university.
An institution within or associated with a college or university that gives instruction in a specialized field and recommends candidates for degrees.
A division of an educational institution constituting several grades or classes: advanced to the upper school.
The student body of an educational institution.
The building or group of buildings housing an educational institution.
The process of being educated formally, especially education constituting a planned series of courses over a number of years: The children were put to school at home. What do you plan to do when you finish school?
A session of instruction: School will start in three weeks. He had to stay after school today.

A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief: the school of Aristotle; the Venetian school of painters.
A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions: aristocrats of the old school.
Close-order drill instructions or exercises for military units or personnel.
Australian. A group of people gathered together for gambling.

tr.v. schooled, school·ing, schools
To educate in or as if in a school.
To train or discipline: She is well schooled in literature. See Synonyms at teach.

adj.
Of or relating to school or education in schools: school supplies; a school dictionary.


[Middle English scole, from Old English scl, from Latin schola, scola, from Greek skhol. See segh- in Indo-European Roots.]

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n.
A large group of aquatic animals, especially fish, swimming together; a shoal. See Synonyms at flock1.

intr.v. schooled, school·ing, schools
To swim in or form into a school.


[Middle English scole, from Middle Dutch. See skel-1 in Indo-European Roots.]

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school

In addition to the idiom beginning with school, also see tell tales (out of school).


The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

n 1: an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900" 2: a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" [syn: schoolhouse] 3: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: schooling] 4: an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game" 5: the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together" [syn: schooltime, school day] 6: a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" 7: a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" [syn: shoal] v 1: educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions" 2: train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise] 3: swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

Answer 8

hell