School definition

School as a noun

1. an educational institution

   "the school was founded in 1900"

2. a building where young people receive education

   "the school was built in 1932"

   Same sense: schoolhouse

3. the process of being formally educated at a school

   "what will you do when you finish school?"

   Same sense: schooling

4. a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers

   "the Venetian school of painting"

5. the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

   "stay after school"

   Same sense: school day, schooltime

6. an educational institution's faculty and students

   "the school keeps parents informed"

7. a large group of fish

   "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

   Same sense: shoal

School as a verb

8. educate in or as if in a school

   "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"

9. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

   "She is well schooled in poetry"

   Same sense: train, educate, cultivate, civilize, civilise

10. swim in or form a large group of fish

    "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

Synonyms and antonyms

• schoolhouse
• schooling
• school day
• schooltime
• shoal
• train
• educate
• cultivate
• civilize
• civilise

All synonyms of school, sense by sense

How to say school

School has 1 syllable and rhymes with cool. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with school

• cool
• rule
• pool
• tool
• fool
• molecule
• stool
• preschool
• mule
• ridicule
• drool
• minuscule

All 29 words that rhyme with school

SCHOOL in word games

Scrabble

11

Words With Friends

12

Anagrams

1

Is SCHOOL a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check SCHOOL in the word checker, or unscramble SCHOOL to see its 1 anagram and the shorter words in its letters.