Meaning

4 senses
  1. (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

  2. (transitive)To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

  3. (transitive)To control, or compose, one’s expression.

    She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.

  4. (intransitive)To form into, or travel in, a school.

    School with other fish: you’re less likely to be eaten.

Examples

12837 sentences
  1. How do you get to school?

    Як ти добираєшся до школи? — deniko

    ruКак ты добираешься до школы? — marafon

    deWie kommst du zur Schule? — Hans_Adler

  2. 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

  3. Our school is across the river.

    Наша школа знаходиться на тому боці річки. — ChickenKiev

    ruНаша школа находится за рекой. — Hellerick

  4. Mary had to go to school.

    Марії треба було йти до школи. — aandrusiak

    deMary musste zur Schule gehen. — mayabe

  5. I go to a driving school.

    Я відвідую курси водіїв. — deniko

    ruЯ хожу в автошколу. — marafon

Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to educate, teach, or train:
Русский
By meaning 1
to educate, teach, or train:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to educate, teach, or train:

Origin

From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West G

From 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, schooled
Base formschool · to school
3rd person singularschools
Present participleschooling
Past simpleschooled
Past participleschooled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyschool
he, she, itschools

Past simpleLesson

all personsschooled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave schooled
he, she, ithas schooled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill school

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedschooling

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

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
school — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto