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school in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
    "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
    educate  school  train  cultivate  civilize  civilise 
  2. swim in or form a large group of fish
    "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
    school 
  3. educate in or as if in a school
    "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
    school 
noun
  1. a building where young people receive education
    "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"
    school  schoolhouse 
  2. the process of being formally educated at a school
    "what will you do when you finish school?"
    school  schooling 
  3. an educational institution
    "the school was founded in 1900"
    school 
  4. a large group of fish
    "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
    school  shoal 
  5. a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
    "the Venetian school of painting"
    school 
  6. an educational institution's faculty and students
    "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"
    school 
  7. 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"
    school  schooltime  school day 
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