Definition of school

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School (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience..

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Monitorial :: Monitorial (a.) Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction..
Principal :: Principal (n.) A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant..
Romanticism :: Romanticism (n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style..
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc..
Pedant :: Pedant (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
Regent :: Regent (a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools..
Gymnasium :: Gymnasium (n.) A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.
Foundationer :: Foundationer (n.) One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
Schoolhouse :: Schoolhouse (n.) A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction..
Chargehouse :: Chargehouse (n.) A schoolhouse.
Term :: Term (n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms..
School :: School (n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
Schoolman :: Schoolman (n.) One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
Philosophy :: Philosophy (n.) The course of sciences read in the schools.
Schoolmate :: Schoolmate (n.) A pupil who attends the same school as another.
Text-book :: Text-book (n.) A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook..
Neoplatonism :: Neoplatonism (n.) A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy..
Lacasterian :: Lacasterian (a.) Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them..
School :: School (n.) 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..
Cyrenaic :: Cyrenaic (n.) A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n..
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