Word.ws English Dictionary

new school

new school noun: a style, way of thinking, or method for accomplishing a task that is typical of the current era, as opposed to former eras.

Noun

new school (plural new schools)

  1. (also, attributive, idiomatic, informal) A style, way of thinking, or method for accomplishing a task that is typical of the current era, as opposed to former eras.
    • Don't tell me that you understand until you hear the man / The book of the new school rap game / Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane1988, “Don't Believe the Hype”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy
    • That means I fly rough early, plus, I know Tae Bo / That means I'm new-school, pop pills and stay in beef2001, “Girls, Girls, Girls”, in The Blueprint, performed by JAY-Z
    Antonyms:
    old school

Adjective

new school (comparative more new school, superlative most new school)

  1. Of or pertaining to a new school style, way of thinking, or method.

new school meaning in Bengali

new school in Bengali

চিন্তাধারা, কাজ সম্পন্ন করার পদ্ধতি, নতুন শৈলী, পদ্ধতি সংক্রান্ত

Antonyms of new school

Forms of new school

Noun
pluralnew schools
alternative formnewschool
alternative formnew-school
alternative formnew skool
alternative formnewskool
Adjective
comparativemore new school
superlativemost new school

Questions about new school

What does new school mean?
New school means a style, way of thinking, or method for accomplishing a task that is typical of the current era, as opposed to former eras.
What is new school in Bengali?
New school in Bengali is চিন্তাধারা, কাজ সম্পন্ন করার পদ্ধতি, নতুন শৈলী. See New school meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is new school?
New school can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of new school?
The plural of new school is new schools.

Words near new school in the dictionary

  1. New Russia
  2. New Russian
  3. New Russians
  4. New Salem
  5. New San Jose
  6. new school
  7. new schooler
  8. new schoolers
  9. new schools
  10. New Scotland
  11. New Scotland Yard

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: new school (page history and authors); new school (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-new school.wav, En-au-new school.ogg.

Cite this entry: “new school.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/new_school. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.