–noun

1.	an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school.

2.	an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.

3.	a college or university.

4.	a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.

5.	a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.

6.	the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.

7.	one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.

8.	a building housing a school.

9.	the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.

10.	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.

11.	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.

12.	any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.

13.	the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.

5af

14.	Art. a. 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. b. the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.

15.	any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.

16.	Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like.

17.	Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered to 92b gether, esp. for gambling or drinking.

18.	schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.

19.	Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.

–adjective

20.	of or connected with a school or schools.

21.	Obsolete. of the schoolmen.

–verb (used with object)

22.	to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.

23.	Archaic. to reprimand.