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Plural of school

regular plural

The plural of school is schools.

Forms of school

Singularschool /skuːl/
Pluralschools /skuːlz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Schools in a sentence

  • One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools, said the report, as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks.2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, archived from the original on 05 Mar...
  • Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
  • In schools, it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.From the entry confiscate
  • Native speakers of English get paid much more than locals in the schools.From the entry native speaker
  • Schools no longer teach morals to children. We need to remoralize education!From the entry remoralize

Meaning of school

  1. noun An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
  2. noun An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
  3. noun At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

Full definition of school

Questions about the plural of school

What is the plural of school?
The plural of school is schools.
Is school countable?
School is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: school (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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