schoolnoun
uk/skuːl/us/skuːl/school noun (EDUCATION)
A1 [ C or U ] a place where children go to be educated:
A1 [ U ] the period of your life during which you go to school, or the teaching and learning activities which happen at school:
A2 [ U ] the time during the day when children are studying in school:
[ C + sing/pl verb ] all the children and teachers at a school:
[ C or U ] a part of a college or university specializing in a particular subject or group of subjects:
A2 [ C ] a place where people can study a particular subject either some of the time or all of the time:
B1 [ U ] US a college or university or the time that a student spends there:
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- a school concert
- a school desk
- I drove my daughter to school.
- We were at school together.
- I was getting the kids ready for school.
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Types of school
- alma mater
- business school
- charter school
- coed
- coeducational
- college
- comprehensive school
- convent school
- faith school
- fee-paying
- finishing school
- grammar school
- high school
- independent school
- infant
- junior
- junior school
- madrasa
- parochial school
- single-sex
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school noun (GROUP)
[ C, + sing/pl verb ] a group of painters, writers, poets, etc. whose work is similar, especially similar to that of a particular leader:
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Groups of people
- alliance
- an
- assemblage
- band
- bee
- corps
- crop
- galaxy
- gang
- ginger group
- group
- grouping
- quarter
- think tank
- threesome
- throng
- tribe
- trio
- triumvirate
- wing
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school noun (SEA CREATURES)
[ C, + sing/pl verb ] a large number of fish or other sea creatures swimming in a group:
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Animal groupings
- bevy
- biomass
- brood
- colony
- covey
- drove
- eusocial
- flight
- flock
- gaggle
- herd
- hive
- menagerie
- pack
- pair
- pod
- pride
- shoal
- stable
- swarm
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Idiom(s)
schoolverb [ T ]
uk/skuːl/us/skuːl/formalto train a person or animal to do something:
[ T often passive ] to teach a child:
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Teaching in general
- CAL
- CLIL
- clue
- clue sb in
- drum
- engage
- homeschool
- hothousing
- instruction
- instructional
- popularize
- special educational needs
- teach
- teach sb a lesson idiom
- that'll teach sb idiom
- tutelage
- upskill
- upskilling
- wean
- wean sb on sth
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