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Etymology 1
Elementary school
From Middle English scole , from Old English scōl ( “ place of education ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *skōlā , from Late Latin schola , scola ( “ learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school ” ) , from Ancient Greek σχολή ( skholḗ , “ spare time, leisure ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- ( “ to hold, have, possess ” ) . Doublet of schola and shul .
Compare Old Frisian skūle , schūle ( “ school ” ) (West Frisian skoalle , Saterland Frisian Skoule ), Dutch school ( “ school ” ) , German Low German School ( “ school ” ) , Old High German scuola ( “ school ” ) , German Schule ( “ school ” ) , Bavarian Schui ( “ school ” ) , Old Norse skóli ( “ school ” ) .
Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole ( “ group of persons, host, company ” ) , from Middle Dutch scole ( “ multitude, troop, band ” ) . See school ( “ group ” ) . Related also to Old High German sigi ( German Sieg , “ victory ” ) , Old English siġe , sigor ( “ victory ” ) .
Alternative forms
Noun
school (countable and uncountable , plural schools )
( Canada , US ) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning ; an educational institution.
Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school .
Synonyms: academy , college , university
( British ) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education , prior to tertiary education (college or university ).
2013 July 19, Mark Tran , “Denied an education by war ”, in The Guardian Weekly , volume 189 , number 6, page 1:One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools [ …] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school . Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
( UK ) At Eton College , a period or session of teaching.
Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
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
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.
( 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 .
1660 , Jeremy Taylor , The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper :Let no man be less confident in his faith [ …] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.
The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
I’ll see you after school .
The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
He was a gentleman of the old school .
1883 , Arthur Sherburne Hardy , But Yet a Woman :His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools .
An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
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Translations
an institution dedicated to teaching and learning
Abkhaz: апхьарта ( apʼxʲartʼa )
Adyghe: еджапӏэ ( jedžapʼɛ )
Afrikaans: skool (af)
Albanian: mësonjëtore (sq) f , shkollë (sq) f
Ambonese Malay: iskola , skola
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Amharic: ትምህርት ቤት ( təmhrtə bet )
Arabic: مَدْرَسَة (ar) f ( madrasa ) , مَكْتَب (ar) m ( maktab ) ( historical )
Egyptian Arabic: مدرسة f ( madrasa )
Gulf Arabic: مدرسة f ( madrisa )
Hijazi Arabic: مدرسة f ( madrasa )
South Levantine Arabic: مدرسة f ( madrase )
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܡܕܪܫܬܐ f ( maḏreštāʾ )
Armenian: դպրոց (hy) ( dprocʻ )
Aromanian: sculii f , sculie f
Assamese: পঢ়াশালি ( porhaxali ) , স্কুল ( skul ) , বিদ্যালয় ( biddaloy ) , ছাতৰশালি ( satorxali )
Asturian: escuela (ast) f
Atong (India): skul
Avar: школа ( škola )
Azerbaijani: məktəb (az) , mədrəsə (az) ( Islamic or South Azerbaijani )
Baluchi: وانگ جاہ ( wánag jáh ) , ( rare ) وانتجاہ ( wántjáh )
Bashkir: мәктәп ( məktəp ) , мәҙрәсә ( məźrəsə ) ( Islamic )
Basque: eskola (eu) , ikastola (eu) , ikastetxe (eu)
Belarusian: шко́ла f ( škóla ) , вучы́лішча n ( vučýlišča )
Bella Coola: acwsalcta
Bengali: বিদ্যালয় (bn) ( biddaloẏ ) , মকতব (bn) ( moktob ) ( Islamic ) , মাদ্রাসা (bn) ( madraśa ) ( Islamic ) , পাঠশালা (bn) ( paṭhśala ) , স্কুল (bn) ( skul ) , ইস্কুল (bn) ( iskul )
Breton: skol (br) f
Brunei Bisaya: sakulah
Brunei Malay: sikulah
Bulgarian: учи́лище (bg) n ( učílište ) , шко́ла (bg) f ( škóla ) ( specialised, e.g. music, language school )
Burmese: ကျောင်း (my) ( kyaung: )
Buryat: һургуули ( hurguuli )
Carpathian Rusyn: шко́ла f ( škóla )
Catalan: escola (ca) f
Cebuano: eskuwela , eskuwelahan
Central Dusun: sikul
Central Melanau: sekul
Chechen: школа ( škola ) , ишкол ( iškol )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 學校 / 学校 ( hok6 haau6 ) , 書館 / 书馆 ( syu1 gun2 ) ( dated or dialectal )
Dungan: щүәщё ( xüəxi͡o ) , щүәтон ( xüəton )
Eastern Min: 學校 / 学校 ( hŏk-hâu ) , 學堂 / 学堂 ( hŏk-dòng )
Gan: 學堂 / 学堂 ( hoh7 tong )
Hakka: 學校 / 学校 ( ho̍k-káu ) , 學堂 / 学堂 ( ho̍k-thòng )
Hokkien: 學校 / 学校 (zh-min-nan) ( ha̍k-hāu )
Jin: 學校 / 学校 ( xyeh5 xiau3 ) , 學堂 / 学堂 ( xyeh5 ton1 )
Mandarin: 學校 / 学校 (zh) ( xuéxiào ) , 學堂 / 学堂 (zh) ( xuétáng ) ( dialectal )
Northern Min: 學堂 / 学堂 ( hă-dǒng )
Wu: 學校 / 学校 ( 8 yaq-yau) , 學堂 / 学堂 ( 8 ghoq-daon)
Xiang: 學校 / 学校 ( xio6 jiau4 ) , 學堂 / 学堂 ( xio6 dan2 )
Chukchi: каԓеткоран ( kaḷetkoran )
Chuvash: шкул ( škul )
Coptic: ⲁⲛⲥⲏⲃⲉ ( ansēbe ) ( Sahidic ) , ⲁⲛⲍⲏⲃ ( anzēb ) ( Bohairic )
Crimean Tatar: mektep
Czech: škola (cs) f
Danish: skole (da)
Dargwa: ушкул ( uškul )
Dhivehi: ސްކޫލު ( skūlu )
Dutch: school (nl) f
Egyptian: (ꜥt-sbꜣw )
Elfdalian: skaule m
Erzya: тонавтыкудо ( tonavtikudo )
Esperanto: lernejo (eo)
Estonian: kool (et)
Ewe: suku
Faroese: skúli (fo) m
Finnish: koulu (fi)
French: école (fr) f , collège (fr) m
Friulian: scuele f
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤶𞤢𞤲𞥆𞤺𞤪𞤣𞤫 , 𞤣𞤵𞤯𞤢𞤤
Roman: janngirde , duɗal
Galician: escola (gl) f , colexio (gl) m
Gamilaraay: dhiirrabaa
Georgian: სკოლა (ka) ( sḳola )
German: Schule (de) f
Greek: σχολείο (el) n ( scholeío )
Ancient: διδασκαλεῖον n ( didaskaleîon )
Greenlandic: atuarfik
Gujarati: નિશાળ f ( niśāḷ ) , વિદ્યાલય ( vidyālya ) , સ્કૂલ f ( skūl )
Haitian Creole: lekòl
Hebrew: בֵּית סֵפֶר (he) m ( bet séfer )
Hiligaynon: eskuwela
Hindi: विद्यालय (hi) m ( vidyālay ) , स्कूल (hi) m ( skūl ) , मद्रसा m ( madrasā ) ( Islamic ) , पाठशाला (hi) f ( pāṭhśālā )
Hungarian: iskola (hu)
Hunsrik: Schul f , xuul f
Iban: sekula
Icelandic: skóli (is) m
Ido: skolo (io)
Ilocano: eskuela
Indonesian: sekolah (id)
Ingrian: škoulu , oppi
Interlingua: schola (ia)
Irish: scoil (ga) f
Italian: scuola (it) f
Japanese: 学校 (ja) ( がっこう, gakkō ) , 学び舎 ( まなびや, manabiya )
Javanese: ꦱꦼꦏꦺꦴꦭꦃ (jv) ( sêkolah )
Jeju: ᄒᆞᆨ교 ( hawkgyo )
Judeo-Italian: scuola , סשוולא
Kalmyk: школ ( şkol )
Kannada: ಶಾಲೆ (kn) ( śāle ) , ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ (kn) ( vidyālaya )
Kapampangan: pipágarálan , iskuela
Kashubian: szkòła f
Kazakh: мектеп (kk) ( mektep ) , медресе ( medrese ) ( Islamic ) , оқыл ( oqyl )
Khmer: សាលារៀន (km) ( saalaa riən ) , សាលា (km) ( saalaa )
Korean: 학교(學校) (ko) ( hakgyo )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مهکتهب ( mekteb ) , قوتابخانه ( qutabxane )
Northern Kurdish: dibistan (ku) f , fêrgeh (ku) f , xwendingeh (ku) f , qutabxane (ku) f , medrese (ku) f , mekteb (ku) f , perwerdegeh (ku) f
Kyrgyz: мектеп (ky) ( mektep ) , медресе ( medrese ) ( Islamic ) , окул ( okul )
Ladin: scola f
Ladino: skola f , סקולה f
Lao: ໂຮງຮຽນ (lo) ( hōng hīan )
Latin: collēgium n , lūdus (la) m , schola f , audītōrium n
Latvian: skola (lv) f
Lithuanian: mokykla (lt) f
Lombard: scola (lmo) f , scöla f , scöra f
Louisiana Creole French: lékòl
Lü: ᦷᦣᧂᦵᦣᧃ ( honghen ) , ᦷᦣᧂᦉᦸᧃ ( hongṡoan )
Lushootseed: ʔugʷusaɬalʔtxʷ
Luxembourgish: Schoul (lb) f
Macedonian: училиште (mk) n ( učilište ) , школа (mk) f ( škola ) , школо n ( školo )
Malagasy: sekoly (mg)
Malay: sekolah (ms) , maktab , madrasah (ms) ( Islamic )
Malayalam: വിദ്യാലയം (ml) ( vidyālayaṁ )
Maltese: skola (mt)
Manchu: ᡨᠠᠴᡳᡴᡡ ( tacikū )
Manx: scoill m
Maori: kura (mi) , wharekura
Marathi: शाळा f ( śāḷā )
Mòcheno: schual f
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: сургууль (mn) ( surguulʹ )
Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠷᠭᠠᠭᠤᠯᠢ ( surɣaɣuli )
Navajo: óltaʼ
Neapolitan: scola f
Nepali: इस्कुल ( iskul )
Norman: êcole f ( Jersey )
North Frisian: Skuul c
Northern Sami: skuvla
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skole (no) m
Nynorsk: skule m , skole m
Occitan: escòla (oc) f
Odia: ବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ (or) ( bidyaḷôyô )
Old English: scōl f
Old Irish: scol f
Old Prussian: skūli f
Oromo: mana barumsaa
Ossetian: скъола ( sk’ola )
Papiamentu: skol
Pashto: ښوونځی (ps) m ( xowanjai ) , مدرسه f ( madrasa )
Persian:
Dari: مَدْرَسَه (fa) ( madrasa ) , مَکْتَب (fa) ( maktab ) , دَبِسْتَان (fa) ( dabistān ) ( primary )
Iranian Persian: مَدْرِسِه (fa) ( madrese ) , مَکْتَب (fa) ( maktab ) , دَبِسْتان (fa) ( dabestân ) ( primary )
Piedmontese: scòla f
Pite Sami: skåvvlå
Plautdietsch: School f
Polish: szkoła (pl) f , buda (pl) f ( colloquial )
Portuguese: escola (pt) f , colégio (pt) m
Punjabi: ਮਦਰੱਸਾ m ( madrasā ) , ਸਕੂਲ (pa) m ( sakūl )
Quechua: yachay wasi
Romagnol: scöla f
Romanian: școală (ro) f
Romansch: scola f , scoula f
Russian: шко́ла (ru) f ( škóla ) , учи́лище (ru) n ( učílišče ) ( specialized school, college )
Samogitian: muokīkla f
Sanskrit: विद्यालय (sa) m ( vidyālaya )
Santali: ᱵᱤᱨᱫᱟᱹᱜᱟᱲ ( birdăgaṛ )
Sardinian: isciola f , iscola f , scola f
Saterland Frisian: Skoule f
Scots: skuil , schuil
Scottish Gaelic: sgoil f
Semai: sekulah
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шко̑ла f , медрѐса f ( Islamic )
Roman: škȏla (sh) f , medrèsa (sh) f ( Islamic )
Sicilian: scola (scn) f
Sindhi: اِسڪوُلُ ( iskūlu )
Sinhalese: ඉස්කෝලය (si) ( iskōlaya ) , පාසැල ( pāsæla )
Skolt Sami: škooul
Slovak: škola (sk) f
Slovene: šola (sl) f
Somali: duqsi (so) , iskuul
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: šula f
Upper Sorbian: šula f
Sotho: sekolo (st)
Spanish: escuela (es) f , colegio (es) m
Swahili: shule (sw)
Swedish: skola (sv)
Sylheti: ꠁꠍ꠆ꠇꠥꠟ ( iskul )
Tabasaran: мектеб ( mekteb )
Tagalog: eskuwelahan , paaralan (tl) n
Tajik: мактаб (tg) ( maktab ) , мадраса (tg) ( madrasa )
Tamil: பள்ளி (ta) ( paḷḷi ) , பாடசாலை (ta) ( pāṭacālai )
Tatar: мәктәп (tt) ( mäktäp ) , мәдрәсә (tt) ( mädräsä ) ( Islamic )
Telugu: బడి (te) ( baḍi ) , పాఠశాల (te) ( pāṭhaśāla ) , విద్యాలయం (te) ( vidyālayaṁ )
Tetum: eskola
Thai: โรงเรียน (th) ( roong-riian )
Tibetan: སློབ་གྲྭ ( slob grwa )
Tigrinya: ቤት-ትምህርቲ ( bet-təmhərti )
Tok Pisin: skul
Turkish: okul (tr)
Turkmen: mekdep , uçilişşe , medrese ( Islamic )
Tutong: sekula
Ukrainian: шко́ла (uk) f ( škóla ) , учи́лище n ( učýlyšče )
Urdu: اِسْکُول m ( iskūl ) , مَدْرَسَہ m ( madrasa ) , مَکْتَب m ( maktab ) , دَرْس گاہ m ( dars gāh ) , تَعْلِیم گاہ m ( ta'līm gāh ) , دَبِسْتان m ( dabistān ) , تَعْلِیمی اِدارَہ m ( ta'līmī idāra )
Uyghur: مەكتەپ ( mektep )
Uzbek: shkola , maktab (uz) , madrasa (uz) ( Islamic ) , oʻqil
Venetian: scoła f
Vietnamese: trường (vi) (場 ), trường học (vi) (場學 )
Vilamovian: śül
Volapük: jul (vo) , ( lower (primary) ) donajul
Walloon: scole (wa) f
Waray-Waray: eskuwela
Welsh: ysgol (cy) f
Western Panjabi: سکول (pnb) m
Wutunhua: xaitang
Yagnobi: мактаб ( maktab )
Yakut: оскуола ( oskuola )
Yiddish: שולע f ( shule ) , שול f ( shul )
Yup'ik: eskuulaq , elitnaurvik
Zazaki: mektev
Zhuang: yozyau , hagdangz , ranzhag , sawfuengz
an institution dedicated to teaching and learning before college or university
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Arabic: مَدْرَسَة (ar) f ( madrasa )
Armenian: դպրոց (hy) ( dprocʻ )
Assamese: পঢ়াশালি ( porhaxali ) , স্কুল ( skul ) , বিদ্যালয় ( biddaloy ) , ছাতৰশালি ( satorxali )
Bashkir: мәктәп ( məktəp )
Bulgarian: учи́лище (bg) n ( učílište )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 學校 / 学校 ( hok6 haau6 )
Dungan: щүәщё ( xüəxi͡o )
Eastern Min: 學校 / 学校 ( hŏk-hâu )
Hakka: 學校 / 学校 ( ho̍k-káu )
Mandarin: 學校 / 学校 (zh) ( xuéxiào )
Dutch: school (nl)
Finnish: koulu (fi)
Galician: colexio (gl) m , escola (gl) f
Greek: σχολείο (el) n ( scholeío )
Indonesian: sekolah (id)
Ingrian: škoulu , oppi
Japanese: 学校 (ja) ( がっこう, gakkō )
Javanese: ꦱꦼꦏꦺꦴꦭꦃ (jv) ( sêkolah )
Khmer: សាលារៀន (km) ( sala rean )
Korean: 중등 학교 (中等學校) ( jungdeunghakgyo )
Lao: ໂຮງຮຽນ (lo) ( hōng hīan )
Latvian: skola (lv) f
Malay: sekolah (ms)
Malayalam: പള്ളിക്കൂടം (ml) ( paḷḷikkūṭaṁ ) , വിദ്യാലയം (ml) ( vidyālayaṁ ) , സ്കൂൾ (ml) ( skūḷ )
Maori: kura (mi)
Marathi: शाळा f ( śāḷā )
Pashto: ښوونځی (ps) m ( xowanjai )
Persian:
Dari: مَدْرَسَه (fa) ( madrasa )
Iranian Persian: مَدْرِسِه (fa) ( madrese )
Polish: szkoła (pl) f
Portuguese: escola (pt) f
Quechua: yachay wasi
Romanian: școală medie (ro) f , gimnaziu (ro)
Russian: шко́ла (ru) f ( škóla )
Santali: ᱵᱤᱨᱫᱟᱹᱜᱟᱲ ( birdăgaṛ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шко̑ла f
Roman: škȏla (sh) f
Sindhi: اسڪول ( iskūlu )
Spanish: escuela (es) f
Swahili: shule (sw)
Swedish: skola (sv) c
Tagalog: eskuwelahan , paaralan (tl)
Turkish: okul (tr)
Ukrainian: шко́ла (uk) f ( škóla )
Urdu: مَکْتَب m ( maktab )
Yup'ik: eskuulaq
college or university
Afrikaans: kollege , universiteit (af)
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Arabic: كُلِّيَّة (ar) f ( kulliyya ) , جَامِعَة (ar) f ( jāmiʕa )
Armenian: բուհ (hy) ( buh )
Breton: skol-veur (br) f
Bulgarian: коле́ж (bg) m ( koléž ) , университе́т m ( universitét )
Burmese: တက္ကသိုလ် (my) ( takka.suil )
Catalan: escola (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 大學 / 大学 (yue) ( daai6 hok6 )
Dungan: дащүә ( daxüə )
Eastern Min: 大學 / 大学 ( dâi-hŏk )
Hokkien: 大學 / 大学 (zh-min-nan) ( tāi-ha̍k )
Mandarin: 學校 / 学校 (zh) ( xuéxiào ) , 大學 / 大学 (zh) ( dàxué )
Czech: škola (cs) f
Danish: skole (da) c
Dutch: school (nl) f , universiteit (nl) f
Estonian: kool (et)
Finnish: yliopisto (fi)
French: collège (fr) m , université (fr) f , faculté (fr)
Galician: universidade (gl) f , faculdade (gl) f , colexio universitario m
German: Universität (de) f , Hochschule (de) f
Greek: πανεπιστήμιο (el) n ( panepistímio )
Hebrew: אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה (he) f ( univérsita ) , מִכְלָלָה (he) f ( mikhlalá )
Hungarian: egyetem (hu) ( university ) , főiskola (hu) ( college )
Ido: skolo (io)
Indonesian: universitas (id)
Interlingua: schola (ia)
Irish: scoil (ga)
Italian: università (it) f , facoltà (it)
Japanese: 大学 (ja) ( だいがく, daigaku ) , 学校 (ja) ( がっこう, gakkō )
Korean: ( College ) 대학(大學) (ko) ( daehak ) , ( University ) 대학교(大學校) (ko) ( daehakgyo )
Latin: collēgium n , ūniversitās f
Lithuanian: mokykla (lt) f
Malay: kolej (ms) , universiti (ms)
Maltese: università (mt) , istitut , kulleġġ
Marathi: महाविद्यालय (mr) n ( mahāvidyālay )
Northern Sami: allaskuvla
Polish: uczelnia (pl) f , szkoła (pl) f
Portuguese: universidade (pt) f , faculdade (pt)
Romanian: școală superiară f , universitate (ro) f , facultate (ro) f , colegiu (ro) n
Russian: вы́сшая шко́ла (ru) f ( výsšaja škóla ) , вы́сшее уче́бное заведе́ние (ru) n ( výsšeje učébnoje zavedénije ) , университе́т (ru) m ( universitét ) , акаде́мия (ru) f ( akadémija ) , институ́т (ru) m ( institút ) , консервато́рия (ru) f ( konservatórija ) , колле́дж (ru) m ( kollédž ) , те́хникум (ru) m ( téxnikum ) , учи́лище (ru) n ( učílišče )
Scottish Gaelic: sgoil
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: факу̀лте̄т m , академија f , колеџ m ( college ) , универзитет m ( university ) , свеу̀чилӣште
Roman: fakùltēt (sh) m , akademija (sh) f , koledž (sh) m ( college ) , univerzitet (sh) m ( university ) , sveùčilīšte (sh) n
Sindhi: ڪاليج
Slovak: škola (sk) f
Spanish: universidad (es) f , facultad (es) f
Swahili: shule (sw)
Swedish: högskola (sv) ( college ) , universitet (sv) ( university ) , lärosäte (sv)
Tagalog: pamantasan (tl) n
Telugu: పాఠశాల (te) ( pāṭhaśāla ) , విద్యాలయం (te) ( vidyālayaṁ )
Thai: วิทยาลัย (th) ( wít-tá-yaa-lai )
Turkish: üniversite (tr)
Ukrainian: ви́ща шко́ла f ( výšča škóla ) , ви́щий навча́льний за́клад m ( výščyj navčálʹnyj základ ) , університе́т (uk) m ( universytét ) , акаде́мія (uk) f ( akadémija ) , інститу́т m ( instytút ) , консервато́рія f ( konservatórija ) , коле́дж m ( kolédž ) , те́хнікум m ( téxnikum ) , учи́лище n ( učýlyšče )
Vietnamese: trường (vi) (場 ), đại học (vi) (大學 ), trường đại học (vi) (場學 )
Welsh: ysgol (cy) f
Western Panjabi: یونیورسٹی (pnb)
a department/institute at a college or university
Afrikaans: departement (af)
Arabic: قِسِم m ( qisim )
Armenian: ֆակուլտետ (hy) ( fakultet )
Breton: kevrenn f
Bulgarian: факулте́т (bg) m ( fakultét )
Catalan: escola (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 學校 / 学校 (zh) ( xuéxiào )
Czech: škola (cs) f
Danish: skole (da) c
Dutch: school (nl) f
Estonian: kool (et)
Finnish: koulu (fi)
French: école (fr) f
Galician: faculdade (gl) f
German: Schule (de) f , Fakultät (de)
Greek: σχολή (el) f ( scholí )
Hebrew: בֵּית סֵפֶר (he) m ( bet séfer ) , פָקוּלְטָה (he) f ( fakúlta )
Hungarian: kar (hu) , intézet (hu) , fakultás (hu)
Ido: skolo (io)
Indonesian: fakultas (id)
Interlingua: schola (ia)
Irish: scoil (ga)
Italian: facoltà (it) f
Japanese: 大学 (ja) ( だいがく, daigaku ) , 学校 (ja) ( がっこう, gakkō )
Korean: 학과(學科) (ko) ( hakgwa )
Lithuanian: mokykla (lt) f
Malay: fakulti
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fakultet n
Polish: szkoła (pl) f
Portuguese: faculdade (pt) f
Romanian: școală (ro) f
Russian: ка́федра (ru) f ( káfedra ) , факульте́т (ru) m ( fakulʹtét )
Scottish Gaelic: sgoil
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀те̄дра f , факу̀лте̄т m , шко̑ла f
Roman: kàtēdra (sh) f , fakùltēt (sh) m , škȏla (sh) f
Slovak: škola (sk) f
Spanish: facultad (es) f
Swahili: shule (sw)
Swedish: fakultet (sv) , institution (sv)
Tagalog: pakultad , departamento , sangay , institusyon , kagawaran (tl)
Thai: วิทยาลัย (th) ( wít-tá-yaa-lai )
Turkish: fakülte (tr)
Ukrainian: факульте́т m ( fakulʹtét ) , відді́лення f ( viddílennja )
Vietnamese: phân khoa (vi) (分 (vi) 科 ), phân khoa đại học (分 (vi) 科 大學 )
Welsh: ysgol (cy) f
(collectively) the followers of a particular doctrine
Afrikaans: leer (af) , skool (af)
Arabic: مَدْرَسَة (ar) f ( madrasa )
Armenian: դպրոց (hy) ( dprocʻ )
Breton: skol (br) f , skolioù (br) pl
Bulgarian: шко́ла (bg) f ( škóla )
Catalan: escola (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 學派 / 学派 (zh) ( xuépài )
Czech: škola (cs) f
Danish: skole (da)
Dutch: school (nl) f
Esperanto: skolo (eo)
Estonian: kool (et) , koolkond
Finnish: koulukunta (fi)
French: école (fr) f
German: Schule (de) f
Greek: σχολή (el) f ( scholí )
Ancient: αἵρεσις f ( haíresis )
Hebrew: אסכולה (he) f ( askola )
Hungarian: iskola (hu)
Ido: skolo (io)
Interlingua: schola (ia)
Irish: scoil (ga)
Italian: scuola (it) f
Japanese: 学派 (ja) ( がくは, gakuha )
Korean: 학파(學派) (ko) ( hakpa )
Latin: secta f
Latvian: skola (lv) f
Lithuanian: mokykla (lt) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skole (no) m
Polish: szkoła (pl) f
Portuguese: escola (pt) f , doutrina (pt) f
Romanian: școală (ro) f
Russian: уче́ние (ru) n ( učénije ) , шко́ла (ru) f ( škóla )
Scottish Gaelic: sgoil
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шко̑ла f
Roman: škȏla (sh) f
Slovak: škola (sk) f
Spanish: escuela (es) f
Swahili: shule (sw)
Swedish: skola (sv) , lära (sv) , skolbildning c
Tagalog: aktitud , aral (tl) , turo (tl)
Turkish: ekol (tr)
Ukrainian: шко́ла (uk) f ( škóla )
Vietnamese: trường phái (vi) (場 派 (vi) )
Welsh: ysgol (cy) f
an establishment offering specialized instruction (driving etc.)
Verb
school (third-person singular simple present schools , present participle schooling , simple past and past participle schooled )
( transitive ) To educate , teach , or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
( transitive ) To defeat emphatically , to teach an opponent a harsh lesson .
1998 April 13, Leigh Jones, “National Bar Exam Methods Win in ADA Regulation Test”, in The Journal Record :A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
2006 , Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan , page 67 :Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss [ …]
2007 , Peter David, Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3 , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN , page 216 :"You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson." "This time I'm gonna school you."
2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times , →ISSN :Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News.
( transitive ) To control, or compose, one’s expression.
She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
Derived terms
Translations
to educate, teach, or train
Afrikaans: skool (af)
Breton: skoliata (br) , kelenn (br)
Bulgarian: обучавам (bg) ( obučavam )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 教育 (zh) ( jiàoyù ) , 訓練 / 训练 (zh) ( xùnliàn )
Dutch: scholen (nl)
Finnish: kouluttaa (fi)
German: unterrichten (de) , schulen (de)
Greek: εκπαιδεύω (el) ( ekpaidévo ) , διαπαιδαγωγώ (el) ( diapaidagogó ) , διδάσκω (el) ( didásko )
Hebrew: לימד ( liméd )
Interlingua: educar , instruer , inseniar
Malay: mendidik
Norwegian: skole (no) , skolere , lære opp , utdanne (no)
Portuguese: educar (pt) , instruir (pt) , ensinar (pt) , escolarizar
Romanian: învăța (ro) , educa (ro) , instrui (ro) , școlariza (ro) , antrena (ro)
Russian: учи́ть (ru) ( učítʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шко̏ловати , шко̑лати , обуча́вати
Roman: škȍlovati (sh) , škȏlati (sh) , obučávati (sh)
Slovene: učiti (sl)
Spanish: educar (es) , escolarizar (es)
Swahili: shule (sw)
Swedish: skola (sv) , lära (sv)
Tagalog: magturo , turuan , sanayin
Turkish: eğitim vermek
Ukrainian: навча́ти ( navčáty )
Etymology 2
From Middle English scole , schole ( “ group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish ” ) , from Middle Dutch scole ( “ multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals ” ) , from Old Dutch *scola , *skola ( “ troop, multitude ” ) , from Frankish *skolu , from Proto-Germanic *skulō ( “ crowd ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- ( “ crowd, people ” ) .
Cognate with Middle Low German schōle ( “ multitude, troop ” ) , Old English scolu ( “ troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish ” ) . Doublet of shoal .
Alternative forms
Noun
A school (sense 1 ) of fish
school (plural schools )
( collective ) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises , dolphins , or whales .
The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
Synonym: shoal
A multitude .
Translations
a group of fish
Armenian: վտառ (hy) ( vtaṙ )
Asturian: cardume m
Belarusian: кася́к m ( kasják ) , згра́я f ( zhrája )
Breton: moudenn (br) f
Bulgarian: паса́ж (bg) m ( pasáž ) , я́то (bg) n ( játo )
Catalan: banc (ca) m , mola de peix f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 一群 魚 / 一群 鱼 ( yīqún yú ) , 魚群 / 鱼群 (zh) ( yúqún )
Czech: hejno (cs) n
Danish: stime c
Dutch: school (nl) f
Esperanto: fiŝaro
Faroese: torva f , vað n
Finnish: parvi (fi) , kalaparvi (fi)
French: banc (fr) m
Galician: banco (gl) m , manda (gl) f , cardume (gl) f , fieiro m
German: Schwarm (de) m
Greek: κοπάδι (el) n ( kopádi )
Hebrew: לַהֲקַת דָּגִים f ( lahakat dagim ) , עֲדַת דַּגִים f ( 'adat dagim )
Hungarian: raj (hu)
Icelandic: vaða (is) f , torfa f
Indonesian: kawanan (id)
Interlingua: banco (ia)
Irish: scoil (ga) f , báire m , ráth f
Italian: banco (it) m
Japanese: 群れ (ja) ( むれ, mure ) , 魚群 (ja) ( ぎょぐん, gyogun )
Khmer: ហ្វូង (km) ( voung )
Latin: grex (la) m
Macedonian: јато n ( jato )
Malay: kawanan (ms)
Maori: matatuhi , rāngai , ranga
Maranao: boreng , gasang
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stim (no) m , flokk (no) m ( e.g. of dolphins )
Nynorsk: stim m , flokk m ( e.g. of dolphins )
Polish: ławica (pl)
Portuguese: cardume (pt) m
Russian: кося́к (ru) m ( kosják ) , ста́я (ru) f ( stája )
Scottish Gaelic: cliath f , sgaoth m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ја̏то n , пло́ва f
Roman: jȁto (sh) , plóva (sh) f
Spanish: cardumen (es) m , banco (es) m
Swahili: shule (sw)
Swedish: stim (sv) n
Tagalog: kulisaw
Turkish: sürü (tr)
Ukrainian: згра́я (uk) f ( zhrája )
Verb
school (third-person singular simple present schools , present participle schooling , simple past and past participle schooled )
( intransitive , of fish ) To form into, or travel in, a school.
Further reading
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /sxoːl/
Hyphenation: school
Rhymes: -oːl
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch schôle , from Latin schola , from Ancient Greek σχολή ( skholḗ ) . Doublet of skorro .
Noun
school f (plural scholen , diminutive schooltje n )
A school , educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
Synonym: ( slang ) skorro
A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
Any organisation providing instruction.
A movement or stylistic trend.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch schōle , from Old Dutch *skola , from Proto-West Germanic *skolu , from Proto-Germanic *skulō , from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- ( “ crowd, people ” ) .
Noun
school f (plural scholen , diminutive schooltje n )
A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
school
singular past indicative of schuilen
inflection of scholen :
first-person singular present indicative
imperative