Usually means: Institution for educating children, adolescents.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word school:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. school: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. school, school: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. school, school: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. school: Collins English Dictionary
  5. school: Vocabulary.com
  6. School, School, school, school: Wordnik
  7. school: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. school: Wiktionary
  9. school: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. school: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. school: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. school: Dictionary.com
  13. school (1), school (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. school: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. School (Nirvana song), School (South Korean TV series), School (Supertramp song), School (biology), School (disambiguation), School (fish), School (song), School, The School (British band), The School (Norwegian band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. School: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. school: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. school: Rhymezone
  19. school, school (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. school: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. school: Free Dictionary
  22. school: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. school: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. school: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. school: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. School (biology), school: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. School (biology), school: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. School: Merck Manuals
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. school: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. school: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. school, school: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

(Note: See schooled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
noun:  (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
noun:  (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
noun:  Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
noun:  An art movement, a community of artists.
noun:  (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
noun:  The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
noun:  The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
noun:  The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
noun:  An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
verb:  (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
verb:  (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.
noun:  (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
noun:  A multitude.
verb:  (intransitive, of fish) To form into, or travel in, a school.

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