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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: School \School\, n. [For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with school for learning.] A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: School \School\, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc?lu, L. schola, Gr. ? leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as ?, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See {Scheme}.] 1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. [1913 Webster] Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. --Acts xix. 9. [1913 Webster] 2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. [1913 Webster] As he sat in the school at his primer. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 3. A session of an institution of instruction. [1913 Webster] How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. [1913 Webster] At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. [1913 Webster] 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. [1913 Webster] What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? --Buckminster. [1913 Webster] 7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. [1913 Webster] Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. [1913 Webster] His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. --A. S. Hardy. [1913 Webster] 9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. [1913 Webster] {Boarding school}, {Common school}, {District school}, {Normal school}, etc. See under {Boarding}, {Common}, {District}, etc. {High school}, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U. S.] {School board}, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district. {School committee}, {School board}, an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U. S.] {School days}, the period in which youth are sent to school. {School district}, a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] {Sunday school}, or {Sabbath school}, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: School \School\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Schooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Schooling}.] 1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. [1913 Webster] He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. [1913 Webster] It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: school 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: {school}, {schoolhouse}] 3: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: {school}, {schooling}] 4: a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" 5: the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school 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: {school}, {schooltime}, {school day}] 6: an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game" 7: a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" [syn: {school}, {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: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: {educate}, {school}, {train}, {cultivate}, {civilize}, {civilise}] 3: swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait" From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: school /sxol/ 1. bevy; collection; group; heap; herd; set 2. school 3. school