# school
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: sko͞ol, IPA: /skuːl/, (Indic) /sk(ʰ)uːl/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /skuːɫ/
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland, pull-pool) IPA: /skʉl/
* (Local Dublin) IPA: /skɪʉːl/
* Rhymes: -uːl

### Etymology 1

From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), 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”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).
Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).

#### Alternative forms

* schole (obsolete)

#### Noun

school (countable and uncountable, plural schools)
* (Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
    Synonyms: academy, college, university
    Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
    Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
* (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
** 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
* (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
    Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
* Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
    Synonyms: college, department, faculty, institute
    We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
* An art movement, a community of artists.
    The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.
* (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
    These economists belong to the monetarist school.
** 1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Nature, Excellencies, Uses and Intention of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Sect[ion] V. Practical Conclusions from the Preceding Discourses.”, in The Worthy Communicant or A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper […], London: […] R. Norton for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas […], published 1661, →OCLC, pages 90–91:Let no man be leſſe confident in his holy faith […] by reason of any difference of judgement vvhich is in the ſeveral Schools of Chriſtians concerning the effects and conſequent bleſſings of this Sacrament.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
* The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
    I’ll see you after school.
* The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
* The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
    He was a gentleman of the old school.
** 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman:His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
* An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

##### Hyponyms

* See also Thesaurus:school

##### Coordinate terms

* (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university

##### Derived terms

* academy school
* after-school
* after-school special
* after school special
* aided school
* all-through school
* approved school
* art school
* at school
* back-to-school
* back-to-school night
* beacon school
* beauty school
* Bible school
* big school
* blab school
* boarding school
* board school
* B-school
* b-school
* business school
* charm school
* charter school
* Chicago school
* choir school
* church school
* combined school
* comprehensive school
* continuation school
* convent school
* cram school
* dame school
* dance school
* day school
* divinity school
* driving school
* dual school
* elementary school
* escalator school
* e-school
* evening school
* every day is a school day
* feeder school
* film school
* finishing school
* first school
* flying school
* forest school
* Frankfurt School
* free school movement
* grade school
* grad school
* graduate school
* grammar school
* hedge school
* high school
* home school
* industrial school
* infant school
* in school
* in-school suspension
* integrated school
* intermediate school
* international school
* john school
* J-school
* junior high school
* junior school
* ladder school
* Lake school
* language school
* Latin grammar school
* Latin school
* law school
* life school
* little school
* lower school
* magnet school
* medical school
* med school
* middle school
* military school
* mission school
* moonlight school
* music school
* national school
* national school bus chrome
* new school
* new-school
* night school
* non-school, nonschool
* normal school
* nursery school
* old-school
* old school
* out-of-school learning
* out-of-school suspension
* parish school
* parochial school
* party school
* postsecondary school
* pregnancy school
* preparatory school
* prep school
* pre-school
* primary school
* primary school student
* private school
* public-school
* public school
* pushing school
* pushing-school
* ragged school
* real school
* reform school
* residential school
* riding school
* rule the school
* Sabbath school
* safety school
* sainik school
* school age
* school-age
* school-aged
* schoolbag
* school band
* school board
* schoolbook
* school book
* schoolboy
* school bus
* school-butter
* school captain
* schoolchild
* school class
* school counselor
* school crossing attendant
* schoolday, school day
* school dinner
* school-dinner lady
* school dinner lady
* school district
* school division
* schoolfellow
* schoolfriend
* schoolgirl
* school glue
* school-goer
* schoolground
* school holiday
* school holidays
* school-house
* school inspector
* schoolkid
* school-leaver
* school life
* schoolma'am
* school-marm
* school marm
* schoolmaster
* school mate
* school meal
* schoolmistress
* school night
* school of hard knocks
* school of the air
* school of thought
* school pence
* school-point
* school port
* school psychologist
* school-ready
* school refusal
* school resource officer
* school-room
* school run
* school shark
* school shooter
* school shooting
* school sores
* school's out
* school teacher
* schoolteacher
* school tie
* school-time
* school trip
* school uniform
* school voucher
* school-wide
* schoolwork
* school year, schoolyear
* school zone
* secondary modern school
* secondary school
* selective school
* semester school
* semi-boarding school
* senior high school
* senior school
* separate school
* skip school
* ski school
* skoo'
* smile school
* southern school whiting
* special school
* state school
* summer school
* Sunday school
* talk out of school
* teach school
* technical school
* tell tales out of school
* therapeutic boarding school
* titan primary school
* too cool for school
* trade school
* training school
* truant school
* umbrella school
* union high school
* upper school
* vaulting school
* vaulting-school
* vernacular school
* vested school
* vestibule school
* vocational school
* voluntary aided school
* voluntary controlled school
* Waldorf school

##### Descendants

* Australian Kriol: skul
* Bislama: skul
* Nigerian Pidgin: skul
* Tok Pisin: skul, sikul
* Palauan: skuul
* Pijin: skul
* → Maori: kura
* → Swahili: skule, skuli

##### Translations

Abkhaz: апхьарта (apʼxʲartʼa)
Adyghe: еджапӏэ (jedžapʼɛ)
Afrikaans: skool (af)
Albanian: mësonjëtore (sq) f, shkollë (sq) f
Ambonese Malay: iskola, skola
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Amharic: ትምህርት ቤት (təmhrtə bet)
Arabic: مَدْرَسَة (ar) f (madrasa), مَكْتَب (ar) m (maktab) (historical)
Chadian Arabic: لكول m (lekkōl)
Egyptian Arabic: مدرسة f (madrasa)
Gulf Arabic: مدرسة f (madrisa)
Hijazi Arabic: مدرسة f (madrasa)
South Levantine Arabic: مدرسة f (madrase)
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܡܕܪܫܬܐ f (maḏreštāʾ)
Armenian: դպրոց (hy) (dprocʻ)
Aromanian: sculii f, sculie f
Assamese: পঢ়াশালি (porhaxali), স্কুল (skul), বিদ্যালয় (biddaloy), ছাতৰশালি (satorxali)
Asturian: escuela (ast) f
Atong (India): skul
Avar: школа (škola)
Azerbaijani: məktəb (az), mədrəsə (az) (Islamic or South Azerbaijani)
Baluchi: وانگ جاہ (wánag jáh), (rare) وانتجاہ (wántjáh)
Bashkir: мәктәп (məktəp), мәҙрәсә (məźrəsə) (Islamic)
Basque: eskola (eu), ikastola (eu), ikastetxe (eu)
Belarusian: шко́ла f (škóla), вучы́лішча n (vučýlišča)
Bella Coola: acwsalcta
Bengali: বিদ্যালয় (bn) (biddaloẏ), মকতব (bn) (moktob) (Islamic), মাদ্রাসা (bn) (madraśa) (Islamic), পাঠশালা (bn) (paṭhśala), স্কুল (bn) (skul), ইস্কুল (bn) (iskul)
Breton: skol (br) f
Brunei Bisaya: sakulah
Brunei Malay: sikulah
Bulgarian: учи́лище (bg) n (učílište), шко́ла (bg) f (škóla)(specialised, e.g. music, language school)
Burmese: ကျောင်း (my) (kyaung:)
Buryat: һургуули (hurguuli)
Carpathian Rusyn: шко́ла f (škóla)
Catalan: escola (ca) f
Cebuano: eskuwela, eskuwelahan
Central Dusun: sikul
Central Melanau: sekul
Chechen: школа (škola), ишкол (iškol)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 學校 / 学校 (hok$^6$ haau$^6$), 書館 / 书馆 (syu$^1$ gun$^2$) (dated or dialectal)
Dungan: щүәщё (xüəxi͡o), щүәтон (xüəton)
Eastern Min: 學校 / 学校 (hŏk-hâu), 學堂 / 学堂 (hŏk-dòng)
Gan: 學堂 / 学堂 (hoh$^7$ tong)
Hakka: 學校 / 学校 (ho̍k-káu), 學堂 / 学堂 (ho̍k-thòng)
Hokkien: 學校 / 学校 (zh-min-nan) (ha̍k-hāu)
Jin: 學校 / 学校 (xyeh$^5$ xiau$^3$), 學堂 / 学堂 (xyeh$^5$ ton$^1$)
Mandarin: 學校 / 学校 (zh) (xuéxiào), 學堂 / 学堂 (zh) (xuétáng) (dialectal)
Northern Min: 學堂 / 学堂 (hă-dǒng)
Wu: 學校 / 学校 ($^8$yaq-yau), 學堂 / 学堂
Xiang: 學校 / 学校 (xio$^6$ jiau$^4$), 學堂 / 学堂 (xio$^6$ dan$^2$)
Choctaw: holisso apisa
Chukchi: каԓеткоран (kaḷetkoran)
Chuvash: шкул (škul)
Coptic: ⲁⲛⲥⲏⲃⲉ (ansēbe) (Sahidic), ⲁⲛⲍⲏⲃ (anzēb) (Bohairic)
Crimean Tatar: mektep
Czech: škola (cs) f
Danish: skole (da)
Dargwa: ушкул (uškul)
Dhivehi: ސްކޫލު (skūlu)
Dutch: school (nl) f
Edo: òwébè, èsùkú
Egyptian: (ꜥt-sbꜣw)
Elfdalian: skaule m
Erzya: школа (škola), тонавтнема кудо (tonavtnema kudo)
Esperanto: lernejo (eo)
Estonian: kool (et)
Ewe: suku
Faroese: skúli (fo) m
Finnish: koulu (fi)
French: école (fr) f, collège (fr) m
Friulian: scuele f
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤶𞤢𞤲𞥆𞤺𞤪𞤣𞤫, 𞤣𞤵𞤯𞤢𞤤
Roman: janngirde, duɗal
Galician: escola (gl) f, colexio (gl) m
Gamilaraay: dhiirrabaa
Georgian: სკოლა (ka) (sḳola)
German: Schule (de) f
Greek: σχολείο (el) n (scholeío)
Ancient: διδασκαλεῖον n (didaskaleîon)
Greenlandic: atuarfik
Gujarati: નિશાળ f (niśāḷ), વિદ્યાલય (vidyālya), સ્કૂલ f (skūl)
Haitian Creole: lekòl
Hanunoo: aradalan
Hausa: makar̃antā (ha)
Hawaiian: kula
Hebrew: בֵּית סֵפֶר (he) m (bet séfer)
Hiligaynon: eskuwela
Hindi: विद्यालय (hi) m (vidyālay), पाठशाला (hi) f (pāṭhśālā), गुरुकुल (hi) m (gurukul)
Hungarian: iskola (hu)
Hunsrik: Schul f, xuul f
Iban: sekula
Icelandic: skóli (is) m
Ido: skolo (io)
Ifè: sùkúrù, ilé-ìwé
Igala: ìchèkpúlù
Igbo: ụlọ̀ akwụkwọ
Ilocano: eskuela
Indonesian: sekolah (id)
Ingrian: škoulu, oppi
Interlingua: schola (ia)
Irish: scoil (ga) f
Italian: scuola (it) f
Izon: fúntolumọwarị, sukúlù
Japanese: 学校 (ja) (がっこう, gakkō), 学び舎 (まなびや, manabiya)
Javanese: ꦱꦼꦏꦺꦴꦭꦃ (jv) (sêkolah)
Jeju: ᄒᆞᆨ교 (hawkgyo)
Judeo-Italian: scuola, סשוולא
Kalmyk: школ (şkol)
Kanakanabu: tarisinata
Kannada: ಶಾಲೆ (kn) (śāle), ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ (kn) (vidyālaya)
Kapampangan: pipágarálan, iskuela
Kashubian: szkòła f
Kazakh: мектеп (kk) (mektep), медресе (medrese) (Islamic), оқыл (oqyl)
Khmer: សាលារៀន (km) (saalaa riən), សាលា (km) (saalaa)
Korean: 학교(學校) (ko) (hakgyo)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مه‌کته‌ب (mekteb), قوتابخانه (qutabxane)
Northern Kurdish: dibistan (ku) f, fêrgeh (ku) f, xwendingeh (ku) f, qutabxane (ku) f, medrese (ku) f, mekteb (ku) f, perwerdegeh (ku) f
Kyrgyz: мектеп (ky) (mektep), медресе (medrese) (Islamic), окул (okul)
Ladin: scola f
Ladino: skola f, סקולה f
Lao: ໂຮງຮຽນ (lo) (hōng hīan)
Latin: collēgium n, lūdus (la) m, schola f, audītōrium n
Latvian: skola (lv) f
Lithuanian: mokykla (lt) f
Lombard: scola (lmo) f, scöla f, scöra f
Louisiana Creole French: lékòl
Lü: ᦷᦣᧂᦵᦣᧃ (honghen), ᦷᦣᧂᦉᦸᧃ (hongṡoan)
Lucumí: ilé igué, ilé iwé, lewé
Lushootseed: ʔugʷusaɬalʔtxʷ
Luxembourgish: Schoul (lb) f
Macedonian: училиште (mk) n (učilište), школа (mk) f (škola), школо n (školo)
Malagasy: sekoly (mg)
Malay: sekolah (ms), maktab, madrasah (ms) (Islamic)
Malayalam: വിദ്യാലയം (ml) (vidyālayaṁ)
Maltese: skola (mt)
Manchu: ᡨᠠᠴᡳᡴᡡ (tacikū)
Manx: scoill m
Maori: kura (mi), wharekura
Marathi: शाळा f (śāḷā)
Mòcheno: schual f
Middle English: scole
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: сургууль (mn) (surguulʹ)
Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠷᠭᠠᠭᠤᠯᠢ (surɣaɣuli)
Navajo: óltaʼ
Neapolitan: scola f
Nepali: इस्कुल (iskul)
Norman: êcole f (Jersey)
North Frisian: Skuul c
Northern Sami: skuvla
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skole (no) m
Nynorsk: skule m, skole m
Nupe: mankan̄ta, mákáńtá
Nǀuu: skualsi, skoolsi
Occitan: escòla (oc) f
Odia: ବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ (or) (bidyāḷaya)
Okinawan: 学校 (がっこー, gakkō)
Old English: scōl f
Old Irish: scol f
Old Prussian: skūli f
Oromo: mana barumsaa
Ossetian: скъола (sk’ola)
Pannonian Rusyn: школа f (škola)
Papiamentu: skol
Pashto: ښوونځی (ps) m (xowanjai), مدرسه f (madrasa)
Persian:
Dari: مَدْرَسَه (madrasa), مَکْتَب (maktab), دَبِسْتَان (dabistān) (primary)
Iranian Persian: مَدْرِسِه (madrese), مَکْتَب (maktab), دَبِسْتان (dabestân) (primary)
Piedmontese: scòla f
Pite Sami: skåvvlå
Plautdietsch: School f
Polish: szkoła (pl) f, buda (pl) f (colloquial)
Portuguese: escola (pt) f, colégio (pt) m
Punjabi: ਮਦਰੱਸਾ m (madrasā), ਸਕੂਲ (pa) m (sakūl)
Quechua: yachay wasi
Romagnol: scöla f
Romanian: școală (ro) f
Romansch: scola f, scoula f
Russian: шко́ла (ru) f (škóla), учи́лище (ru) n (učílišče) (specialized school, college)
S'gaw Karen: ကၠိ (kyoh)
Samogitian: muokīkla f
Sanskrit: विद्यालय (sa) m (vidyālaya)
Santali: ᱵᱤᱨᱫᱟᱹᱜᱟᱲ (birdăgaṛ)
Sardinian: isciola f, iscola f, scola f
Saterland Frisian: Skoule f
Scots: skuil, schuil
Scottish Gaelic: sgoil f
Semai: sekulah
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шко̑ла f, медрѐса f (Islamic)
Roman: škȏla (sh) f, medrèsa (sh) f (Islamic)
Sicilian: scola (scn) f
Sindhi: اِسڪوُلُ (iskūlu)
Sinhalese: ඉස්කෝලය (si) (iskōlaya), පාසැල (pāsæla)
Skolt Sami: škooul
Slovak: škola (sk) f
Slovene: šola (sl) f
Somali: duqsi (so), iskuul
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: šula f
Upper Sorbian: šula f
Sotho: sekolo (st)
Spanish: escuela (es) f, colegio (es) m
Sumerian: 𒂍𒁾𒁀𒀀 (edubak)
Swahili: shule (sw)
Swedish: skola (sv)
Sylheti: ꠁꠍ꠆ꠇꠥꠟ (iskul)
Tabasaran: мектеб (mekteb)
Tagalog: eskuwelahan, paaralan (tl) n
Tajik: мактаб (tg) (maktab), мадраса (tg) (madrasa)
Tamil: பள்ளி (ta) (paḷḷi), பாடசாலை (ta) (pāṭacālai)
Tatar: мәктәп (tt) (mäktäp), мәдрәсә (tt) (mädräsä) (Islamic)
Telugu: బడి (te) (baḍi), పాఠశాల (te) (pāṭhaśāla), విద్యాలయం (te) (vidyālayaṁ)
Tetum: eskola
Thai: โรงเรียน (th) (roong-riian)
Tibetan: སློབ་གྲྭ (slob grwa)
Tigrinya: ቤት-ትምህርቲ (bet-təmhərti)
Tok Pisin: skul
Turkish: okul (tr)
Turkmen: mekdep, uçilişşe, medrese (Islamic)
Tutong: sekula
Ukrainian: шко́ла (uk) f (škóla), учи́лище n (učýlyšče)
Urdu: اِسْکُول m (iskūl), مَدْرَسَہ m (madrasa), مَکْتَب m (maktab), دَرْس گاہ m (dars gāh), تَعْلِیم گاہ m (ta'līm gāh), دَبِسْتان m (dabistān), تَعْلِیمی اِدارَہ m (ta'līmī idāra)
Uyghur: مەكتەپ (mektep)
Uzbek: shkola, maktab (uz), madrasa (uz) (Islamic), oʻqil
Venetan: scoła f
Vietnamese: trường (vi) (場), trường học (vi) (場學)
Vilamovian: śül
Volapük: jul (vo), (lower (primary)) donajul
Walloon: scole (wa) f
Waray-Waray: eskuwela
Welsh: ysgol (cy) f
Western Panjabi: سکول (pnb) m (skol)
Wutunhua: xaitang
Yagnobi: мактаб (maktab)
Yakut: оскуола (oskuola)
Yiddish: שולע f (shule), שול f (shul)
Yoruba: ilé-ìwé
Yup'ik: eskuulaq, elitnaurvik
Zazaki: mektev (diq)
Zhuang: yozyau, hagdangz, ranzhag, sawfuengz :

#### Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
* (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
    Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
** 1620, Tho[mas] Dekker, “The Worme of Conscience”, in Dekker His Dreame. In Which, Beeing Rapt with a Poeticall Enthusiasme, the Great Volumes of Heauen and Hell to Him Were Opened, in Which He Read Many Wonderfull Things., London: Nicholas Okes, →OCLC, page 35:I tooke delights / In plucking Apples from t’Heſperian Trees, / Which Eating, I grew Learn’d: adde to All theſe / My Priuate Readings, which more School’d my Soule, / Then Tutors, when they ſternliest did Controll / With Frownes or Rods: […]
* (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
** 1998 April 13, Leigh Jones, “National Bar Exam Methods Win in ADA Regulation Test”, in The Journal Record:A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
** 2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan, page 67:Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss […]
** 2007, Peter David, Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 216:"You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson." "This time I'm gonna school you."
** 2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News.
* (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.
    She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.

##### Derived terms

* schooling

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Frankish *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).
Cognate with Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal.

#### Alternative forms

* skull (obsolete)

#### Noun

school (plural schools)
* (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
    Synonym: shoal
    The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
* A multitude.

##### Translations
#### Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
* (intransitive, of fish) To form into, or travel in, a school.

### Further reading

* school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* cholos

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sxoːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: school
* Rhymes: -oːl

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of skorro.

#### Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
* a school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
    Synonym: (slang) skorro
* a thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field
* any organisation providing instruction
* a movement or stylistic trend

##### Derived terms

* avondschool
* basisschool
* dansschool
* hogeschool
* kleuterschool
* kweekschool
* lagere school
* leerschool
* middelbare school
* muziekschool
* rijschool
* scholen
* school-tv
* schoolarts
* schoolbank
* schoolboek
* schoolbord
* schoolfeest
* schoolgemeenschap
* schoolhuis
* schoolinspectie
* schooljaar
* schooljongen
* schooljuf
* schoolkind
* schoolkrijt
* schoolleiding
* schoolmeester
* schoolplein
* schoolradio
* schooltas
* schooltelevisie
* schooluniform
* schoolvakantie
* schoolvos
* schoolwerk
* schoolziek
* sportschool
* toneelschool

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: skool (see there for further descendants)
* Berbice Creole Dutch: skul, sulu
* Negerhollands: skoel, skool
* Petjo: skola, sekola
* → Aukan: sikoo
* →? Caribbean Hindustani: skul
* → Kwinti: skoro, skoo
* → Lokono: sulu
* → Papiamentu: skol, skool
* → Saramaccan: sikoò
* → Sranan Tongo: skoro
** → Dutch: skorro
** → Wayana: sikoro
* → Trió: sikora

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch schōle, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).

#### Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
* a school, group of fish or other aquatic animals

##### Derived terms

* samenscholen

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

school
* singular past indicative of schuilen
* inflection of scholen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative