School

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.
2. 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.
3. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
4. 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.
5. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
6. A session of an institution of instruction.
7. A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
8. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
9. 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.
10. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
11. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
12. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.