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schooling |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Schooling \School"ing\, n. 1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching. 2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as he gave his son a good schooling. --Sir W. Scott. 3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Schooling \School"ing\, a. [See {School} a shoal.] (Zo["o]l.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: schooling n 1: the act of teaching at school 2: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: {school}] 3: the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)
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