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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: School \School\, n. [For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with school for learning.] A shoal; a multitude; as a school of fish. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. --Acts xix. 9. 2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. As he sat in the school at his primer. --Chaucer. 3. A session of an institution of instruction. How now Sir Hugh! No school to-day? --Shak. 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. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. --Macaulay. 5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind a body of pupils. 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. 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 Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. --Jer. Taylor. 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. His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. --A. S. Hardy. 9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as the school of experience. {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.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. --Shak. 2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Barbizon \Bar`bi`zon"\, or Barbison \Bar`bi`son"\, school \school\ (Painting) A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny Jules Dupr['e], and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Megarian \Me*ga"ri*an\, Megaric \Me*gar"ic\, a. Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara a city of ancient Greece. {Megarian}, or {Megaric}, {school}, a school of philosophy established at Megara after the death of Socrates, by his disciples, and remarkable for its logical subtlety. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: school n 1: an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900" 2: a place 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; "stay after school" or "he didn't miss a single day of school" [syn: {schooltime}] 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; as of taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: {educate}, {train}, {cultivate}, {civilize}]
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