school
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: sko͞ol, IPA(key): /skuːl/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /skuːɫ/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /skʉl/
- Rhymes: -uːl
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlā, 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”), Bavarian Schui (“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”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]school (countable and uncountable, plural schools)
- (Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
- Synonyms: academy, college, university
- Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
- Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
- (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
- 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.
- (UK) 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.
- Synonyms: college, department, faculty, institute
- 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.
- (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
- These economists belong to the monetarist school.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper:
- Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.
- The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
- I’ll see you after school.
- The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
- The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
- He was a gentleman of the old school.
- 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman:
- His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
- An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
Hyponyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:school
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university
Derived terms
[edit]- academy school
- after-school
- after-school special
- after school special
- aided school
- all-through school
- approved school
- art school
- at school
- back-to-school
- back-to-school night
- beacon school
- beauty school
- Bible school
- big school
- blab school
- boarding school
- board school
- b-school
- B-school
- business school
- charm school
- charter school
- choir school
- church school
- combined school
- comprehensive school
- continuation school
- convent school
- cram school
- dame school
- dance school
- day school
- divinity school
- driving school
- dual school
- elementary school
- escalator school
- e-school
- evening school
- every day is a school day
- feeder school
- film school
- finishing school
- first school
- flying school
- forest school
- Frankfurt School
- free school movement
- grade school
- grad school
- graduate school
- grammar school
- hedge school
- high school
- home school
- home school
- industrial school
- infant school
- in-school suspension
- integrated school
- intermediate school
- international school
- john school
- J-school
- junior high school
- junior school
- ladder school
- Lake school
- language school
- Latin grammar school
- Latin school
- law school
- life school
- little school
- lower school
- magnet school
- medical school
- med school
- middle school
- military school
- mission school
- moonlight school
- music school
- national school
- national school bus chrome
- new school
- new-school
- new school
- night school
- non-school, nonschool
- normal school
- nursery school
- old-school
- old school
- out-of-school learning
- out-of-school suspension
- parish school
- parochial school
- party school
- postsecondary school
- pregnancy school
- preparatory school
- prep school
- pre-school
- primary school
- primary school student
- private school
- public school
- public-school
- pushing-school
- pushing school
- ragged school
- real school
- reform school
- residential school
- riding school
- rule the school
- Sabbath school
- safety school
- sainik school
- school-age
- school age
- school-aged
- schoolbag
- school band
- school board
- schoolbook
- school book
- schoolboy
- school bus
- school-butter
- school captain
- schoolchild
- school class
- school counselor
- school crossing attendant
- schoolday, school day
- school dinner
- school-dinner lady
- school dinner lady
- school district
- school division
- schoolfellow
- schoolfriend
- schoolgirl
- school glue
- school-goer
- schoolground
- school holiday
- school holidays
- school-house
- school inspector
- schoolkid
- school-leaver
- school life
- schoolma'am
- school-marm
- school marm
- schoolmaster
- school mate
- schoolmistress
- school night
- school of hard knocks
- school of the air
- school of thought
- school pence
- school-point
- school port
- school psychologist
- school-ready
- school refusal
- school resource officer
- school-room
- school run
- school shark
- school shooter
- school shooting
- school sores
- school's out
- schoolteacher
- school teacher
- school tie
- school-time
- school trip
- school uniform
- school voucher
- school-wide
- schoolwork
- school year, schoolyear
- secondary modern school
- secondary school
- selective school
- semester school
- semi-boarding school
- senior high school
- senior school
- separate school
- ski school
- skoo'
- smile school
- southern school whiting
- special school
- state school
- summer school
- Sunday school
- talk out of school
- teach school
- technical school
- tell tales out of school
- therapeutic boarding school
- titan primary school
- too cool for school
- trade school
- training school
- truant school
- umbrella school
- union high school
- upper school
- vaulting-school
- vaulting school
- vernacular school
- vested school
- vestibule school
- vocational school
- voluntary aided school
- voluntary controlled school
- Waldorf school
Descendants
[edit]- Australian Kriol: skul
- Bislama: skul
- Nigerian Pidgin: skul
- Tok Pisin: skul, sikul
- Pijin: skul
- → Afar: iskool
- → Assamese: স্কুল (skul)
- → Bengali: স্কুল (skul)
- → Dura: स्कूल
- → East Futuna: sekolā
- → Hindi: स्कूल (skūl)
- → Kurtöp: ཨིས་ཀུལ ('iskul)
- → Maori: kura
- → Nepali: स्कुल (skul)
- → Punjabi: ਸਕੂਲ (sakūl)
- → Swahili: skule, skuli
- → Urdu: اِسْکُول (iskūl)
- → Yup'ik: eskuulaq
Translations
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Verb
[edit]school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
- (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
- Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
- 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:
- 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: […]
- (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- 1998 April 13, Leigh Jones, “National Bar Exam Methods Win in ADA Regulation Test”, in The Journal Record:
- A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
- 2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan, page 67:
- 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 […]
- (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.
- She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
[edit]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.
Alternative forms
[edit]- skull (obsolete)
Noun
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school (plural schools)
- (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
- Synonym: shoal
- The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
- A multitude.
Translations
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Verb
[edit]school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
- (intransitive, of fish) To form into, or travel in, a school.
Further reading
[edit]school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of skorro.
Noun
[edit]school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
- A school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
- Synonym: (slang) skorro
- A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
- Any organisation providing instruction.
- A movement or stylistic trend.
Derived terms
[edit]- avondschool
- basisschool
- dansschool
- hogeschool
- kleuterschool
- kweekschool
- lagere school
- leerschool
- middelbare school
- muziekschool
- rijschool
- scholen
- school-tv
- schoolarts
- schoolbank
- schoolboek
- schoolbord
- schoolhuis
- schoolinspectie
- schooljaar
- schooljongen
- schooljuf
- schoolkind
- schoolkrijt
- schoolmeester
- schoolplein
- schoolradio
- schooltas
- schooltelevisie
- schoolvakantie
- schoolvos
- schoolziek
- sportschool
- toneelschool
Descendants
[edit]- 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
- → Sranan Tongo: skoro
- → Trió: sikora
Etymology 2
[edit]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”).
Noun
[edit]school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
- A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]school
- singular past indicative of schuilen
- inflection of scholen:
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- en:Buildings
- en:Collectives
- en:Organizations
- en:Schools
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- Rhymes:Dutch/oːl
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- nl:Buildings
- nl:Organizations
- nl:Schools