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  1. noun An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.
  2. noun An institution for instruction in a skill or business: a secretarial school; a karate school.
  3. noun A college or university.
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  • Of the three, Stuyvesant, located in Battery Park City, reports the most disparities in a student body; more than 60 percent of the school is Asian. —  Washington Square News RSS
  • Flack of Sauquoit Valley said the funds for her school were already in a state grant. —  The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS
  • Foley said having the club activities at Walnut complements what the school was already doing with its after-school program. —  Grand Island Independent Home RSS
  • "They tell us so in American school, at least at my American school." —  Chancelucky
  • The Macomb native, Western Illinois University graduate and Web master for the school is attending as an alumni of the group. —  pjstar.com Home RSS
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  1. Middle English scole, from Old English scōl, from Latin schola, scola, from Greek skholē; see segh- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English scole, from Middle Dutch; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English scool (Scots scule), scole (the spelling school, with sch -, being an imperfect conformation to the L. schola, as similarly with scholar); from Middle English scole, scowle, from Anglo-Saxon scōlu, a school, = OFries. skūle, schūle = Dutch school = Middle Low German schole = Old High German scuola, Middle High German schuole, German schule = Icelandic skōli (from Anglo-Saxon?) = Swedish skola = Danish skole = Welsh ysgol = Old French escole, French école = Spanish escuela = Portuguese escola = Italian scuola, a school, from Latin schola, scola, learned discussion or disputation, a dissertation, lecture, a place for discussion or instruction, a school, the disciples of a particular teacher, a school, sect, etc., from Greek σχολή, a learned discussion or disputation, a dissertation, lecture, a place for discussion or instruction, a school, a transferred use of σχολή, spare time, leisure; perhaps from ἔχειν (√ σεχ-, σχε-), hold, stop: see scheme. Hence (from Latin schola or Greek σχολή) also scholar, scholastic, scholium, etc.
  2. from school, n.
  3. Now spelled school in conformity with school, with which school is ult. identical; early modern English scool, scoole, scole, scule, scull, skull, from Middle English scull, sculle, properly scole, from Anglo-Saxon scōlu, a school, a multitude (= Dutch school, a school, a multitude): see school, and cf. shoal, the assibilated form of the same word.
 

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