School (?), n. [For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with school for
learning.] A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
School, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc&?;lu, L. schola, Gr. &?; leisure, that in
which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably
from the same root as &?;, the original sense being perhaps, a
stopping, a resting. See Scheme.] 1. 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.
Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
Acts xix. 9.
2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction
of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
As he sat in the school at his primer.
Chaucer.