Other forms: schools
A school is the place where children go every day to learn. Start school, at school, a good school.
In British English, at school means attending as a pupil and in school is less usual; American English uses school for university too, which British English does not. It also means a group within a university — a medical school, a school of law — and a group of artists or thinkers sharing an approach: the Flemish school, a school of thought. Note old school, meaning traditional; school of hard knocks; and that a school of fish is an unrelated word from Dutch.
1nounschoolA place where children go to learn.~70%
“My son started school this year and already loves his teacher.”
2noundepartmentA department of a university.~28%
“She teaches in the school of engineering.”
3noungroupA group sharing the same approach.~2%
“There is a whole school of thought that says otherwise.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 7 sentences found in the wild and placed 7 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
school is a place or group for learning.
Greek skhole meant leisure, then the discussions people held in their leisure, then the place they held them. School is named after free time, which every child in one would find hard to believe.
Proto-Indo-European
*seǵʰ- — to hold, have, possess
Ancient Greek
σχολή — spare time, leisure
Latin
schola
Proto-West Germanic
*skōlu
Old English
scōl — place of education
Middle English
scole
English, today
school
Built from
From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic skōlu, from Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (“spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). a doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, stq Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”). Influenced in some senses by schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (“victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA