school

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A place where children go to be taught.

   The school was built in 1932.

2. 2
   noun

   The process or time of being educated at a school.

   What will you do when you finish school?

3. 3
   noun

   A department of a college or university that teaches a particular subject.

   She studies at the school of medicine.

4. 4
   noun

   A group of artists, writers, or thinkers who share a similar style or ideas.

   He belongs to the modern school of painting.

5. 5
   noun

   A large group of fish swimming together.

   A school of small glittering fish swam by.

Common collocations

• high school Adjective + noun
• school bus Adjective + noun
• go to school Verb + noun
• primary school Adjective + noun
• private school Adjective + noun
• school play Adjective + noun
• school year Adjective + noun
• secondary school Adjective + noun
• leave school Verb + noun
• start school Verb + noun
• attend school Verb + noun

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…

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