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schooling

/ˈskuːlɪŋ/

schooling noun: training or instruction. Also the present participle and gerund of school.

Noun

schooling (countable and uncountable, plural schoolings)

  1. Training or instruction.
  2. Institutional education; attendance of school.
    • I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
    • Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
  3. The training of a horse at dressage.
  4. (obsolete) Discipline; reproof; reprimand.
    • He gave his son a good schooling.
    • […] I thought the schooling as severe as the case merited, […]1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...
  5. (obsolete) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

Also used as

schooling is also the present participle and gerund of school.

schooling meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

schooling in Tamil

பள்ளிப்படிப்பு, பள்ளிப் படிப்பு

schooling in Urdu

اسکولنگ, سکولنگ

schooling in Bengali

training or instruction
তালিম talim

schooling in Telugu

స్కూలింగ్
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schooling in Arabic
تَدْرِيس tadrīs, تَعْلِيم taʕlīm

Examples of schooling in a sentence

  • The school is specially for any child whose schooling was disrupted by illness.
  • Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
  • After all the schooling, I can finally write rarely now.

All 29 example sentences with schooling

Forms of schooling

pluralschoolings

Words formed from schooling

Phrases with schooling

Words that rhyme with schooling

Questions about schooling

What does schooling mean?
Schooling means training or instruction.
What is schooling in Tamil?
Schooling in Tamil is பள்ளிப்படிப்பு, பள்ளிப் படிப்பு. See Schooling meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is schooling?
Schooling is a noun.
How do you pronounce schooling?
Schooling is pronounced /ˈskuːlɪŋ/.
What is the plural of schooling?
The plural of schooling is schoolings.

Words near schooling in the dictionary

  1. schoolies
  2. schoolies week
  3. schoolies weeks
  4. schoolies' week
  5. schoolin'
  6. schooling
  7. schoolings
  8. schooliosis
  9. schoolish
  10. schoolishly
  11. schoolishness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: schooling (page history and authors); schooling (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); schooling (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); schooling (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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