Definition of school

• n. - A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
• n. - A session of an institution of instruction.
• n. - 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.
• n. - The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
• n. - An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
• n. - 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.
• n. - 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.
• n. - Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
• v. t. - To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
• v. t. - To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.