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| NOUN | 1 | school | An educational institution |
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| 2 | school, schoolhouse | A building where young people receive education | |
| 3 | school, schooling | The process of being formally educated at a school | |
| 4 | school | An educational institution's faculty and students | |
| 5 | school, schooltime, school day | The period of instruction in a school | |
| 6 | school | A body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers | |
| 7 | school, shoal | A large group of fish | |
| VERB | 1 | school | Educate in or as if in a school |
| 2 | school, educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise | Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment | |
| 3 | school | Swim in or form a large group of fish |
| Sounds | skuw'l |
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| Rhymes | Blackpool, Boole, boule, and 42 more rhymes in uwl at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | An educational institution. |
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| Examples | "the school was founded in 1900" |
| Members | staff, faculty; schoolteacher, school teacher |
| Narrower | academy; correspondence school; crammer; dancing school; direct-grant school; driving school; finishing school; flying school; graduate school, grad school; language school; nursing school, school of nursing; religious school; riding school; secondary school, lyceum, lycee, Gymnasium, middle school; secretarial school; technical school, tech; training school; veterinary school; conservatory; alma mater; public school; private school; dance school; day school; night school; Sunday school, Sabbath school; grade school, grammar school, elementary school, primary school |
| Broader | educational institution |
| Adjectives | scholastic |
| Verbs | school |
| Meaning | A building where young people receive education. |
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| Examples | "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" |
| Synonyms | schoolhouse |
| Part of | school system |
| Parts | classroom, schoolroom |
| Narrower | conservatory, conservatoire; day school |
| Broader | building, edifice |
| Verbs | school |
| Meaning | The process of being formally educated at a school. |
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| Examples | "what will you do when you finish school?" |
| Synonyms | schooling |
| Broader | education |
| Verbs | school |
| Meaning | An educational institution's faculty and students. |
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| Examples | "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game" |
| Broader | educational institution |
| Verbs | school |
| Meaning | The period of instruction in a school. The time period when schools is in session. |
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| Examples | "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together" |
| Synonyms | schooltime, school day |
| Parts | study hall |
| Broader | time period, period of time, period |
| Verbs | school |
| Meaning | A body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers. |
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| Examples | "the Venetian school of painting" |
| Narrower | Ashcan School, Eight; deconstructivism; historical school; pointillism; art nouveau; lake poets; secession, sezession |
| Broader | body |
| Meaning | A large group of fish. |
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| Examples | "a school of small glittering fish swam by" |
| Synonyms | shoal |
| Members | fish |
| Broader | animal group |
| Verbs | school |
| Meaning | Educate in or as if in a school. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions" |
| Narrower | home-school |
| Broader | educate |
| Nouns | school; school; school; school; schooling; school |
| Meaning | Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "She is well schooled in poetry" |
| Synonyms | educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise |
| Narrower | sophisticate |
| Broader | polish, refine, fine-tune, down |
| Meaning | Swim in or form a large group of fish. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait" |
| Broader | swim |
| Nouns | school |