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: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. school: Merriam-Webster
  3. school, school: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. school, school: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. school: Collins English Dictionary
  6. school: Vocabulary.com
  7. School, School, school, school: Wordnik
  8. school: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. school: Wiktionary
  10. school: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. school: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. school: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. school: Dictionary.com
  14. school (1), school (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. school: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. 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
  17. School: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. school: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. school: Rhymezone
  20. school, school (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. school: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. school: FreeDictionary.org
  23. school: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. school: TheFreeDictionary.com

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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