a shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.-a place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.-a place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.-a session of an institution of instruction.-one of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the middle ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.-the room or hall in english universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.-an assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.-the disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.-the canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.-figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.-to train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.-to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.