Found 4 items, similar to School.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: school
sekolah
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: school
madzhab, perguruan, sekolah
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: school
school
n 1: an educational institution;
“the school was founded in 1900”
2: a building where young people receive education;
“the school
was built in 1932”;
“he walked to school every morning”
[syn:
schoolhouse]
3: the process of being formally educated at a school;
“what
will you do when you finish school?” [syn:
schooling]
4: an educational institution's faculty and students;
“the
school keeps parents informed”;
“the whole school turned
out for the game”
5: the period of instruction in a school; the time period when
schools is in session;
“stay after school”;
“he didn't
miss a single day of school”;
“when the school day was
done we would walk home together” [syn:
schooltime,
school day
]
6: a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by
a similar style or by similar teachers;
“the Venetian
school of painting”
7: a large group of fish;
“a school of small glittering fish
swam by” [syn:
shoal]
school
v 1: educate in or as if in a school;
“The children are schooled
at great cost to their parents in private institutions”
2: train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;
“Cultivate
your musical taste”;
“Train your tastebuds”;
“She is well
schooled in poetry” [syn:
educate,
train,
cultivate,
civilize,
civilise]
3: swim in or form a large group of fish;
“A cluster of
schooling fish was attracted to the bait”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: School
School
\School\, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc?lu, L. schola, Gr. ?
leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation,
lecture, a school, probably from the same root as ?, the
original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See
Scheme.]
1. 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.
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Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
--Acts xix. 9.
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2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the
instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common
school; a grammar school.
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As he sat in the school at his primer. --Chaucer.
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3. A session of an institution of instruction.
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How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? --Shak.
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4. 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.
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At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still
dominant in the schools. --Macaulay.
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5. The room or hall in English universities where the
examinations for degrees and honors are held.
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6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon
instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
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What is the great community of Christians, but one
of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which
God has instituted for the education of various
intelligences? --Buckminster.
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7. 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.
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Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by
reason of any difference in the several schools of
Christians. --Jer. Taylor.
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8. 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.
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His face pale but striking, though not handsome
after the schools. --A. S. Hardy.
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9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as,
the school of experience.
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Boarding school,
Common school,
District school,
Normal school, etc. See under
Boarding,
Common,
District, etc.
High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a
college. [U. S.]
School board, a corporation established by law in every
borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses
or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school
accommodation for all children in their district.
School committee,
School board, an elected committee of
citizens having charge and care of the public schools in
any district, town, or city, and responsible for control
of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U. S.]
School days, the period in which youth are sent to school.
School district, a division of a town or city for
establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.]
Sunday school, or
Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday
for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the
pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school,
collectively.
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School
\School\, n. [For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with
school for learning.]
A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
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School
\School\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Schooled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Schooling.]
1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a
school; to teach.
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He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
--Shak.
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2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to
systematic discipline; to train.
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It now remains for you to school your child,
And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden.
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The mother, while loving her child with the
intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself
to hope for little other return than the waywardness
of an April breeze. --Hawthorne.
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