school

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sko͞ol, IPA^(key): /skuːl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /skuːɫ/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /skʉl/
• (Local Dublin) IPA^(key): /skɪʉːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

Etymology 1

From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlā, 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”), Bavarian Schui (“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)

1. (Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

   Synonyms: academy, college, university

2. (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
3. (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

4. 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

5. An art movement, a community of artists.

6. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
7. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

8. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
9. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
10. 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

Descendants

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

1. (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
2. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
3. (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.

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)

2. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

   Synonym: shoal

3. A multitude.

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

1. (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^(key): /sxoːl/
• 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)

1. a school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not

   Synonym: (slang) skorro

2. a thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field
3. any organisation providing instruction
4. a movement or stylistic trend

Derived terms

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)

1. a school, group of fish or other aquatic animals

Derived terms

• samenscholen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

school

1. singular past indicative of schuilen
2. inflection of scholen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative