Word Meanings - SCHOOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCHOOL)

• Academy
• School
• seminary
• college
• university
• educational
• establishment
• institute
• Educate
• Instruct
• nurture
• discipline
• train
• teach
• develop
• ground
• school
• initiate
• Seminary
• Nursery
• garden
• seed-plot
• academy
• propaganda

Related words: (words related to SCHOOL)

• GARDEN
  German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard 1. A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• UNIVERSITY
  universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• ACADEMY
  1. A garden or grove near Athens , where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. 2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university.
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• GARDENING
  The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.