- school
- [[t]sku͟ːl[/t]]
♦1) N-VAR: usu prep N A school is a place where children are educated. You usually refer to this place as school when you are talking about the time that children spend there and the activities that they do there.
...a boy who was in my class at school...
Even the good students say homework is what they most dislike about school...
I took the kids for a picnic in the park after school.
...a school built in the Sixties...
He favors extending the school day and school year.
...two boys wearing school uniform.
2) N-COUNT-COLL A school is the pupils or staff at a school.Deirdre, the whole school's going to hate you.
...a children's writing competition open to schools or individuals.
3) N-COUNT: with supp, oft in names A privately-run place where a particular skill or subject is taught can be referred to as a school....a riding school and equestrian centre near Chepstow.
...the Kingsley School of English.
4) N-VAR: with supp, oft in names A university, college, or university department specializing in a particular type of subject can be referred to as a school....a lecturer in the school of veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
Stella, 21, is at art school training to be a fashion designer.
5) N-UNCOUNT School is used to refer to university or college. [AM]Moving rapidly through school, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kentucky at age 18.
6) N-COUNT-COLL: usu with supp A particular school of writers, artists, or thinkers is a group of them whose work, opinions, or theories are similar....the Chicago school of economists...
O'Keeffe was influenced by various painters and photographers, but she was never a member of any school.
7) N-COUNT-COLL: N of n A school of fish or dolphins is a large group of them moving through water together.8) VERB If you school someone in something, you train or educate them to have a certain skill, type of behaviour, or way of thinking. [WRITTEN][V n in n] Many mothers schooled their daughters in the myth of female inferiority...
[be V-ed to-inf] He is schooled to spot trouble. [Also V n to-inf]
Syn:[V n] She's been schooling her kids herself.
Syn:Derived words:schooled ADJ-GRADED...a cross-cultural study with Indian children, both schooled and unschooled, and American children.
10) VERB If you school a horse, you train it so that it can be ridden in races or competitions.[V n] She bought him as a ₤1,000 colt of six months and schooled him.
Syn:11) → See also , schooling, , approved school, , church school, , driving school, , grade school, , grammar school, , infant school, , middle school, , nursery school, , prep school, , private school, , special school, , summer school, Sunday school12) PHRASE: usu n PHR (approval) If you approve of someone because they have good qualities that used to be more common in the past, you can describe them as one of the old school.He is one of the old school who still believes in honour in public life.
...an elderly gentleman of the old school.
English dictionary. 2008.
