school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sko͞ol
ipa: /skuːl/
ipa: /skuːɫ/
note: Scotland, Northern Ireland, pull-pool
ipa: /skʉl/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /skɪʉːl/
note: Indic
ipa: /(ɪ)ˈsk(ʰ)ul/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: schools
form: schole
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”), 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”).
Senses: examples: text: Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
text: Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
synonyms: academy
college
university
glosses: An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
glosses: An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
examples: text: Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
glosses: At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
examples: text: We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
synonyms: college
department
faculty
institute
glosses: Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
examples: text: 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.
glosses: An art movement, a community of artists.
examples: text: These economists belong to the monetarist school.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
qualifier: considered collectively
glosses: The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
examples: text: I’ll see you after school.
glosses: The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
glosses: The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
examples: text: He was a gentleman of the old school.
text: His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
ref: 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman:
glosses: The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
glosses: An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
Synonyms: word: school
Hypernyms: word: institution
word: organization
Hyponyms: word: nursery school
word: preschool
word: kindergarten
word: elementary school
word: grade school
word: primary school
word: middle school
word: junior college
word: junior high
word: junior high school
word: grammar school
word: secondary modern school
word: comprehensive school
word: high school
word: secondary school
word: college
word: university
word: graduate school
word: polytechnic
word: boarding school
Coordinate terms: sense: institution providing primary and secondary education
word: nursery school
sense: institution providing primary and secondary education
word: kindergarten
sense: institution providing primary and secondary education
word: college
sense: institution providing primary and secondary education
word: polytechnic
sense: institution providing primary and secondary education
word: university
Meronyms: word: classroom
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
dancing 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
freedom 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
last mile school
Latin grammar school
Latin school
law school
library 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
national-type school
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
samba 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 committee
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
secondary technical 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
Related terms: word: education
word: :Category:Schools
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 542. School
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/36 § graduate school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/39 § high school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/46 § junior high school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/52 § middle school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/57 § normal school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/58 § open classroom school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/65 § preparatory school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/67 § public school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/75 § secondary school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/80 § special school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/83 § summer school