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n.

1) edu an institution for teaching persons under college age

2) a college or university

3) edu an institution or academic department for instruction in a particular skill or field

4) edu a systematic program of studies:

summer school[/ex]

5) edu the activity of teaching or of learning under instruction:

No school today![/ex]

6) edu the body of persons belonging to an educational institution:

The whole school applauded[/ex]

7) edu a building, room, etc., housing an academic department or institution

8) any place, situation, etc., that instructs or indoctrinates

9) the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.:

the Platonic school of philosophy[/ex]

10) fia

a) a group of artists whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence

b) the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity

11) any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs

12) edu of or connected with a school or schools

13) edu to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train

14) archaic to reprimand

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Etymology: bef. 900; ME scole (n.), OE scōl < L schola < Gk scholḗ leisure employed in learning II

school

[[t]skul[/t]] n.

1) anb a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together

2) anb to form into, or go in, a school, as fish

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Etymology: 1350–1400; ME schol(e) < D school; c. OE scolu troop; see shoal II