Definition of school

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School (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience..

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Blackboard :: Blackboard (n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools..
Manege :: Manege (n.) A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses..
Eleatic :: Eleatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason..
Text-book :: Text-book (n.) A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook..
Academy :: Academy (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music..
Schoolhouse :: Schoolhouse (n.) A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction..
Final :: Final (a.) Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term..
Palestra :: Palestra (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general..
School :: School (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish..
Softa :: Softa (n.) Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school..
Herring :: Herring (n.) One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities..
Methodical :: Methodical (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient school of physicians called methodists.
Polytechnic :: Polytechnic (a.) Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products..
Iatromathematician :: Iatromathematician (n.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists..
Scoley :: Scoley (v. i.) To go to school; to study.
Remove :: Remove (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year..
Doctrine :: Doctrine (n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances..
Lacasterian :: Lacasterian (a.) Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them..
Domination :: Domination (n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
Dame :: Dame (n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school..
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