Alternative forms

• schole (obsolete)

Noun

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1. (IndiaCategory:Indian English#SCHOOL, Canada, USCategory:Canadian English#SCHOOLCategory:American English#SCHOOL) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

   Synonyms: academy, college, university

   Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.Category:English terms with usage examples#SCHOOL

   Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.Category:English terms with usage examples#SCHOOL

2. (BritishCategory:British English#SCHOOL) 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, archived from the original on 5 March 2016, page 1:

     One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools, said the report, 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. […] In Syria, 3,900 schools have been destroyed, damaged or occupied for purposes other than education since the start of the conflict over two years ago.

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3. (UKCategory:British English#SCHOOL) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

   Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.Category:English terms with usage examples#SCHOOL

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

   We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.Category:English terms with usage examples#SCHOOL

5. 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#SCHOOL

6. (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.Category:English terms with usage examples#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.

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   • 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.

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7. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

   I’ll see you after school.Category:English terms with usage examples#SCHOOL

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.

   He was a gentleman of the old school.Category:English terms with usage examples#SCHOOL

   • 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman:

     His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.

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10. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.