school

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a building where young people receive education

   the school was built in 1932

2. 2
   noun

   the process of being formally educated at a school

   what will you do when you finish school?

3. 3
   noun

   a large group of fish

   a school of small glittering fish swam by

4. 4
   noun

   a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers

   the Venetian school of painting

5. 5
   noun

   an educational institution

   the school was founded in 1900

6. 6
   noun

   an educational institution's faculty and students

   the school keeps parents informed

7. 7
   noun

   the period of instruction in a school

   the time period when school is in session

8. 8
   verb

   swim in or form a large group of fish

   A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait

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 sen…