Synonyms for school
Another word for school is schoolhouse, schooling or school day. Below are 10 synonyms and 30 related words across 10 senses.
Also searched as: schooled, schools.
1. noun: an educational institution
2. noun: a building where young people receive education
- schoolhouse
3. noun: the process of being formally educated at a school
- schooling
4. noun: a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
5. noun: the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session
- school day
- schooltime
6. noun: an educational institution's faculty and students
7. noun: a large group of fish
- shoal
8. verb: educate in or as if in a school
9. verb: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- train synonyms
- educate synonyms
- cultivate synonyms
- civilize
- civilise
10. verb: swim in or form a large group of fish
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- day school
- night school
- public school
- private school
- film school
- training school
- middle school
- language school
- dance school
- driving school
- primary school
- religious school
- grade school
- technical school
- tech
- building
- conservatory synonyms
- edifice
- conservatoire
- education synonyms
- body synonyms
- historical school
- lake poets
- secession
- art nouveau
- pointillism
- neo-evolutionism
- sezession
- deconstructivism
- neoevolutionism
School in word games
- Letters
- 6
- Scrabble
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble SCHOOL
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Questions people ask
What is another word for school?
You can say schoolhouse, schooling, school day, schooltime or shoal instead of school. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "an educational institution".
What is the opposite of school?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for school; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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