Definition of school

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• school is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 11
• school is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 11
• school is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 12

Definition of school

• a large group of fish (noun)

  Examples

  1. a school of small glittering fish swam by

  Synonyms

  1. shoal
• the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session (noun)

  Examples

  1. stay after school
  2. he didn't miss a single day of school
  3. when the school day was done we would walk home together

  Synonyms

  1. school day
  2. schooltime
• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment (verb)

  Examples

  1. She is well schooled in poetry

  Synonyms

  1. civilise
  2. civilize
  3. cultivate
  4. educate
  5. train
• the process of being formally educated at a school (noun)

  Examples

  1. what will you do when you finish school?

  Synonyms

  1. schooling
• a building where young people receive education (noun)

  Examples

  1. the school was built in 1932
  2. he walked to school every morning

  Synonyms

  1. schoolhouse
• a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers (noun)

  Examples

  1. the Venetian school of painting
• an educational institution (noun)

  Examples

  1. the school was founded in 1900
• an educational institution's faculty and students (noun)

  Examples

  1. the school keeps parents informed
  2. the whole school turned out for the game
• educate in or as if in a school (verb)

  Examples

  1. The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions
• swim in or form a large group of fish (verb)

  Examples

  1. A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait

See definition of school in Merriam Webster