school
To educate, teach, or trainTo educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
» How do you get to school?
Wie kommst du zur Schule?
Как ты добираешься до школы?
Як ти добираєшся до школи?
Як ви добираєтеся до школи?
Meaning
4 senses(transitive)To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
unterrichten, schulen
учи́тьučítʹ
навча́тиnavčáty
educate in or as if in a school
(transitive)To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
(transitive)To control, or compose, one’s expression.
She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
(intransitive)To form into, or travel in, a school.
School with other fish: you’re less likely to be eaten.
Examples
12837 sentencesHow do you get to school?
Як ти добираєшся до школи? — deniko
ruКак ты добираешься до школы? — marafon
deWie kommst du zur Schule? — Hans_Adler
It's time to go to school.
Час іти до школи. — deniko
ruПора в школу. — marafon
deEs ist Zeit, in die Schule zu gehen. — MUIRIEL
Our school is across the river.
Наша школа знаходиться на тому боці річки. — ChickenKiev
ruНаша школа находится за рекой. — Hellerick
Mary had to go to school.
Марії треба було йти до школи. — aandrusiak
deMary musste zur Schule gehen. — mayabe
I go to a driving school.
Я відвідую курси водіїв. — deniko
ruЯ хожу в автошколу. — marafon
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West GFrom Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlu, from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul.
From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *skulu (“troop, group”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).
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Forms
schools, schooling, schooled, schooledSynonyms
6 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- B1School and university — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
Collocations
12 patterns- high school
- go to school
- in high school
- high school student
- junior high school
- late for school
- walk to school
- absent from school
- from high school
- a high school
- be at school
- school today