n.

1. an educational institution
   
   • the school was founded in 1900
2. a building where young people receive education;
   schoolhouse
   
   • the school was built in 1932
   • he walked to school every morning
3. the process of being formally educated at a school;
   schooling
   
   • what will you do when you finish school?
4. an educational institution's faculty and students
   
   • the school keeps parents informed
   • the whole school turned out for the game
5. the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session;
   schooltime, school day
   
   • stay after school
   • he didn't miss a single day of school
   • when the school day was done we would walk home together
6. a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
   
   • the Venetian school of painting
7. a large group of fish;
   shoal
   
   • a school of small glittering fish swam by

v.

1. educate in or as if in a school
   
   • The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions
2. train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;
   educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
   
   • Cultivate your musical taste
   • Train your tastebuds
   • She is well schooled in poetry
3. swim in or form a large group of fish
   
   • A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait