1. school - Noun
2. school - Verb
A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.
A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
A session of an institution of instruction.
One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.
The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.
Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI've never let my school interfere with my education. Mark Twain
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein
A sore finger and a headache are standard excuses for not going to school. Polish Proverb
Experience keeps a dear school. Belgian Proverb
When your devil was born, mine was going to school. Italian Proverb