School crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “School” are TRAIN, SHOAL or HOOKY, with 5 letters. Below are 20 answers from 4 to 14 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

HIGH 4 letters · noun

a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 “he goes to the neighborhood highschool”

TRAIN 5 letters · verb

teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment “Train your tastebuds”

MASTER 6 letters · noun

presiding officer of a school

EDUCATE 7 letters · verb

teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

CIVILIZE 8 letters · verb

teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

CULTIVATE 9 letters · verb

teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment “Cultivate your musical taste”

HOMECOMING 10 letters · noun

an annual school or university reunion for graduates

CONSTRUCTIVIST 14 letters · noun

an artist of the school of constructivism

Telling them apart

With 5 squares, TRAIN, SHOAL and HOOKY all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: T → TRAIN · S → SHOAL · H → HOOKY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, MASTER, MEDICO and TRUANT all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: A → MASTER · E → MEDICO · R → TRUANT. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 7 squares, EDUCATE, SESSION, ACADEMY, SUSPEND, DROPOUT and TRUANCY all fit. The sixth letter tells them all apart: T → EDUCATE · O → SESSION · M → ACADEMY · N → SUSPEND · U → DROPOUT · C → TRUANCY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “schooled” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “school” means

• noun: an educational institution (“the school was founded in 1900”)
• noun: a building where young people receive education (“the school was built in 1932”)
• noun: the process of being formally educated at a school (“what will you do when you finish school?”)
• noun: a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers (“the Venetian school of painting”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as SCHOOL, and words whose definition is SCHOOL. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.