Educationa place for teaching people under college age: [countable]His children went to a private school.[uncountable]Are your children old enough to go to school?
a college or university: [countable]Yale is a prestigious school.[uncountable]He went to school at Yale.
Education an academic department for instruction in a particular field:[countable]the school of liberal arts and sciences.
Educationa program of studies: [uncountable]He's studying in art school.[countable]He's enrolled in an art school.
Education the activity of teaching or of learning under instruction:[uncountable]School doesn't start until September.
Education the body of people belonging to an educational institution:[countable]The whole school applauded.
a group of pupils having a certain master, system, etc.:[countable]the Platonic school of philosophy.
adj.[before a noun]
Educationof or connected with a school or schools.
v.[~ + object]
Educationto educate in or as if in a school; teach:schooled him in magic and sorcery.
Educationan institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age:The children are at school.
Educationan institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
Educationa college or university.
Educationa regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction:summer school.
Educationa session of such a course:no school today; to be kept after school.
Educationthe activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young:As a child, I never liked school.
Educationone's formal education:They plan to be married when he finishes school.
Educationa building housing a school.
Educationthe body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution:The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.
Educationa building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose:the school of agriculture.
Educationa particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education:medical school.
any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.:the Platonic school of philosophy.
Fine Art[Art.]
a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence:the modern school; the Florentine school.
the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity:the French school.
any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
Militaryparts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad,) or the like.
British Terms[Australian and New Zealand Informal.]a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking.
schools, [Archaic.]the faculties of a university.
[Obs.]the schoolmen in a medieval university.
adj.
Educationof or connected with a school or schools.
Education[Obs.]of the schoolmen.
v.t.
Educationto educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
[Archaic.]to reprimand.
Greek scholé̄ leisure employed in learning
Latin schola
Middle English scole (noun, nominal), Old English scōl bef. 900