:an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
:an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
:a college or university.
:a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.
:a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.
:the activity or process of learning under instruction, especially at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.
:one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.
:a building housing a school.
:the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.
:a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture.
:a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school.
:any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
:the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.
:Art. a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school.the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.
:any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
:Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual , the squad , or the like.
:Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, especially for gambling or drinking.
:schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
:Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.
adj.形容词 adjective
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:of or connected with a school or schools.
:Obsolete. of the schoolmen.
v.有主动词 verb
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:to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.