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say it: skool
school is a noun and verb meaning "an educational institution". It is pronounced /ˈskul/ — skool. It carries 10 recorded senses.
an educational institution
“the school was founded in 1900”
a building where young people receive education
“the school was built in 1932”
“he walked to school every morning”
a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
“the Venetian school of painting”
the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session
“stay after school”
“he didn't miss a single day of school”
“when the school day was done we would walk home together”
an educational institution's faculty and students
“the school keeps parents informed”
“the whole school turned out for the game”
educate in or as if in a school
“The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions”
swim in or form a large group of fish
“A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for school come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.