English Dictionary

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
Source : opted (135797)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (135798)  - auto

A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
Source : opted (135799)  - auto

A session of an institution of instruction.
Source : opted (135800)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (135801)  - auto

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
Source : opted (135802)  - auto

An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
Source : opted (135803)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (135804)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (135805)  - auto

Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
Source : opted (135806)  - auto