discipline

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The ability to control your own behaviour and keep working hard.

   It takes real discipline to train every morning before work.

2. 2
   noun

   A particular subject or area of study.

   Biology and chemistry are closely related disciplines.

3. 3
   noun

   A system of rules and the practice of making people obey them.

   The school is known for its strict discipline.

4. 4
   verb

   To punish someone in order to control their behaviour or enforce the rules.

   The teacher had to discipline the students for cheating.

Common collocations

• discipline a kid Verb + noun

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).

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