## Meanings
1. A place where children go to be taught.
2. The process or time of being educated at a school.
3. A department of a college or university that teaches a particular subject.
4. A group of artists, writers, or thinkers who share a similar style or ideas.
5. A large group of fish swimming together.

## Examples
- The school was built in 1932.
- What will you do when you finish school?
- She studies at the school of medicine.
- He belongs to the modern school of painting.
- A school of small glittering fish swam by.

## Derived Forms
- after-school
- b-school
- back-to-school
- e-school
- j-school
- new-school
- non-school
- nonschool
- old-school
- pre-school
- public-school
- pushing-school

## Related Forms
- education

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *seǵʰ-
- Root: scole
- Root: scōl
- Root: *skōlu
- Root: schola
- Root: σχολή

## 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…

## AI Etymology
School is 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”). Important forms in the word's history include Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-, Middle English scole, Old English scōl, Proto-West Germanic *skōlu, la-lat schola, Ancient Greek σχολή. In current use it includes senses such as A place where children go to be taught and The process or time of being educated at a school.

## Topics
- Education & Learning

markdown

school

Meanings

Thesaurus

Common collocations

Etymology

Topics

External links

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

Send feedback