schools

Noun

school (countable and uncountable, plural schools)

1. (Canada, India, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
   • Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.

   Synonyms:

   academy, college, university

2. (UK) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
   • 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. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to...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 2016, page 1
3. (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
   • Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
4. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
   • We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.

   Synonyms:

   college, department, faculty, institute

5. An art movement, a community of artists.
   • The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.
6. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
   • These economists belong to the monetarist school.

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