“schools” is a form of
school
UK /skuːl/ · US /skul/ noun, verb
Forms schools schooling schooled schole skull
- noun (Canada, US, India) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution. “Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.”
- noun (UK) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- noun (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching. “Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.”
- noun Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area. “We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.”
- noun An art movement, a community of artists. “The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.”
- noun (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought. “These economists belong to the monetarist school.”
- noun The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution. “I’ll see you after school.”
- noun The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
- verb (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school). “Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.”
- verb (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- verb (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression. “She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.”
- noun (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. “The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.”
- noun A multitude.
- verb (intransitive, of fish) To form into, or travel in, a school. “School with other fish: you’re less likely to be eaten.”
Synonyms
academy college university department faculty institute shoal schoolhouse schooling schooltime school day educate train cultivate civilize civilise
Etymology
From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlu, from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul.
Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).
Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).
From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *skulu (“troop, group”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).
Cognate with Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
- noun 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.
- noun A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
- verb To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
Etymology [For shool a crowd; prob. confuced with school for learning.]
Etymology [OE. scole, AS. sc, L. schola, Gr. Scheme.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “school”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details