school
Forms
- Plural
- schools
- present (v1)
- school
- past (v2)
- schooled
- past participle (v3)
- schooled
- present participle
- schooling
- 3rd person singular
- schools
Definitions
1.An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
- Just one more tardy and you'll be staying after school.
- Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
- Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
2.An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- I usually went to bed at ten in my school days.
- Our school prohibits us from going to the movies alone.
- What school do you go to?
3.At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
- Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
4.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.
1.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.
- Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News.
2.To control, or compose, one’s expression.
- She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
3.To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
- Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
4.To form into, or travel in, a school.
- School with other fish: you’re less likely to be eaten.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #146
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlu, 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.