school

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.
• noun An institution for instruction in a skill or business.
• noun A college or university.
• noun An institution within or associated with a college or university that gives instruction in a specialized field and recommends candidates for degrees.
• noun A division of an educational institution constituting several grades or classes.
• noun The student body of an educational institution.
• noun The building or group of buildings housing an educational institution.
• noun The process of being educated formally, especially education constituting a planned series of courses over a number of years.
• noun A session of instruction.
• noun A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief.
• noun A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions.
• noun Close-order drill instructions or exercises for military units or personnel.
• noun Australian A group of people gathered together for gambling.
• transitive verb To educate in or as if in a school.
• transitive verb To train or discipline: synonym: teach.
• adjective Of or relating to school or education in schools.
• noun A large group of aquatic animals, especially fish, swimming together; a shoal.
• intransitive verb To swim in or form into a school.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To educate, instruct, or train in or as in school; teach.
• To teach, train, or discipline with the thoroughness and strictness of a school; discipline thoroughly; bring under control.
• To discipline or take to task; reprove; chide and admonish.
• noun A large number of fish, or porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together; a company.
• To form or go in a school, as fish; run together; shoal.
• To go or move in a body; troop.
• noun A medical sect, followers of Stahl, so called because of the doctrine that all vital phenomena proceed from the action of an internal force. See animism, 2.
• noun A school maintained in a community by taxes levied for the purpose.
• noun A place where instruction is given in arts, science, languages, or any species of learning; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a school-house; a school-room.
• noun The body of pupils collectively in any place of instruction, and under the direction of one or more teachers: as, to have a large school.
• noun A session of an institution of instruction; exercises of instruction; school-work.
• noun In the middle ages, a lecture-room, especially in a university or college; hence, the body of masters and students in a university; a university or college; in the plural, the schools, the scholastics generally.
• noun A large room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors take place.
• noun The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine or accept the same teachings or principles; those who exhibit in practice the same general methods, principles, tastes, or intellectual bent; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, art, etc.; a system of doctrine as delivered by particular teachers: as, the Socratic school; the painters of the Italian school; the musicians of the German school; economists of the laisser-faire school.
• noun A system or state of matters prevalent at a certain time; a specific method or cast of thought; a particular system of training with special reference to conduct and manners: as, a gentleman of the old school; specifically, the manifestation or the results of the coöperation of a school (in sense 6): as, paintings of the Italian Renaissance school.
• noun Any place or means of discipline, improvement, instruction, or training.
• noun In music, a book or treatise designed to teach some particular branch of the art: as, A.'s violin school.
• Pertaining or relating to a school or to education: as, a school custom.
• Pertaining to the schoolmen; scholastic: as, school philosophy (scholasticism).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A shoal; a multitude.
• transitive verb To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
• transitive verb To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
• noun A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training.
• noun A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children.
• noun A session of an institution of instruction.
• noun One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
• noun The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
• noun An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
• noun The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.
• noun The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.