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School
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.
(2):
(n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.
(3):
(n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
(4):
(n.) A session of an institution of instruction.
(5):
(n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
(6):
(n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
(7):
(n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
(8):
(n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
(9):
(n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.
(10):
(n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
(11):
(v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
(12):
(v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'School'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/school.html. 1828.
