school
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Is school a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of school?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.Examples: "Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood."; "Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school."Synonyms: academy, college, universityCanadaUScountableuncountable
2. (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).Examples: "One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence."Britishcountableuncountable
3. (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.Examples: "Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week."UKcountableuncountable
4. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.Examples: "These economists belong to the monetarist school."; "Let no man be leſſe confident in his holy faith […] by reason of any difference of judgement vvhich is in the ſeveral Schools of Chriſtians concerning the effects and conſequent bleſſings of this Sacrament."; "Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).Examples: "Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton."; "I tooke delights / In plucking Apples from t’Heſperian Trees, / Which Eating, I grew Learn’d: adde to All theſe / My Priuate Readings, which more School’d my Soule, / Then Tutors, when they ſternliest did Controll / With Frownes or Rods: […]"transitive
2. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.Examples: "A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court."; "Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss […]"; ""You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson." "This time I'm gonna school you.""transitive
3. (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.Examples: "She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings."transitive
noun (English)
1. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.Examples: "The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel."Synonyms: shoalcollective
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, of fish) To form into, or travel in, a school.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary