<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.</li><li>an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.</li><li>a college or university.</li><li>a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.</li><li>a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.</li><li>the activity or process of learning under instruction, especially at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.</li><li>one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.</li><li>a building housing a school.</li><li>the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.</li><li>the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.</li><li>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.</li><li>the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.</li><li>any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.</li><li>Military, Navy: parts of close-order drill applying to the individual school of the soldier, the squad school of the squad, or the like.</li><li>Australian and New Zealand Informal: a group of people gathered together, especially for gambling or drinking.</li><li>schools, Archaic: the faculties of a university.</li><li>Obsolete: the schoolmen in a medieval university.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or connected with a school or schools.</li><li>Obsolete: of the schoolmen.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.</li><li>Archaic: to reprimand.</li></ul>