school of thought

English

Noun

school of thought (plural schools of thought)

1. An opinion subscribed to by some connected or arbitrary group.

   He did not belong to the school of thought that believed Jackson Pollock to be much of an artist.

   • 2018 September 21, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.

Translations

opinion subscribed to by some connected or arbitrary group

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學派／学派 (zh) (xuépài), 流派 (zh) (liúpài), 派別／派别 (zh) (pàibié)

• Esperanto: skolo (eo)
• Finnish: koulukunta (fi)
• French: école de pensée (fr) f
• German: Schule (de) f, wissenschaftliche Schule f (science), Denkschule (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: αἵρεσις f (haíresis)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: scuola di pensiero f
• Japanese: 学派 (ja) (がくは, gakuha), 流派 (ja) (りゅうは, ryūha)
• Korean: 학파 (ko) (hakpa)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: escola de pensamento f
• Russian: шко́ла (ru) f (škóla) (в нау́ке и́ли иску́сстве), шко́ла мы́сли f (škóla mýsli), нау́чная шко́ла f (naúčnaja škóla) (scientific school)
• Spanish: escuela de pensamiento f
• Swedish: lära (sv) c, doktrin (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: школа (uk) (škola)
• Vietnamese: trường phái (vi)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Further reading

• school of thought on Wikipedia.Wikipedia