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school of thought

school of thought noun: a particular way of thinking or interpretation, typically one disputed by the speaker.

Noun

school of thought (plural schools of thought)

  1. A particular way of thinking or interpretation, typically one disputed by the speaker.
    • Well, there are two schools of thought on that topic...
  2. (broadly) A group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy.
    • He did not belong to the school of thought that believed Jackson Pollock to be much of an artist.
    • But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.2018 September 21, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian

school of thought meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Indonesian and Vietnamese

school of thought in Tamil

எண்ணக்குழு

school of thought in Urdu

school of thought
دبستان dabistān, مکتب maktab

school of thought in Indonesian

opinion subscribed to by some connected or arbitrary group
aliran, mazhab

school of thought in Vietnamese

opinion subscribed to by some connected or arbitrary group
trường phái

Forms of school of thought

pluralschools of thought
alternative misspellingschool of thoughts

Questions about school of thought

What does school of thought mean?
School of thought means a particular way of thinking or interpretation, typically one disputed by the speaker.
What is school of thought in Tamil?
School of thought in Tamil is எண்ணக்குழு. See School of thought meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is school of thought?
School of thought is a noun.
What is the plural of school of thought?
The plural of school of thought is schools of thought.

Words near school of thought in the dictionary

  1. school meals
  2. school night
  3. school nights
  4. school of hard knocks
  5. school of the air
  6. school of thought
  7. school of thoughts
  8. school pence
  9. school port
  10. school ports
  11. school psychologist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: school of thought (page history and authors); school of thought (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دبستان (Urdu) (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.

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