school of thought

Questions about school of thought

What does school of thought mean?

school of thought means "a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school".

What is another word for school of thought?

Close synonyms include doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, ism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is school of thought a common word?

school of thought is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.