school

Noun

• a large group of fish
  • a school of small glittering fish swam by
    

• an educational institution's faculty and students
  • the school keeps parents informed
    
  • the whole school turned out for the game
    

• the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session
  • stay after school
    
  • he didn't miss a single day of school
    
  • when the school day was done we would walk home together
    

• a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
  • the Venetian school of painting
    

• the process of being formally educated at a school
  • what will you do when you finish school?
    

• a building where young people receive education
  • the school was built in 1932
    
  • he walked to school every morning
    

• an educational institution
  • the school was founded in 1900
    

Verb

• swim in or form a large group of fish
  • A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait
    

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
  • Cultivate your musical taste
    
  • Train your tastebuds
    
  • She is well schooled in poetry
    

• educate in or as if in a school
  • The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  shoal , schooltime , school day , schooling , schoolhouse , educate , train , cultivate , civilize , civilise