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(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'School'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/school.html. 1828.
 
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