Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "school" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

college

Typical Location

backpack cities city classroom community crises every city populated area prague residential neighborhood town

Capable Of

bus students dictate what class's curriculum field team at event lower requirements major pain provide education

Causes Desire

learn about subject take midterm write term paper

Coordinate Terms

college kindergarten nursery school polytechnic university

Derived Terms

B-school Bible school Chicago school Frankfurt School J-school Lake school Latin grammar school Latin school Sabbath school Sunday school Vacation Bible School Waldorf school academy school after school special after-school after-school special aided school all-through school alternative school approved school art school at school back-to-school back-to-school night beacon school beauty school big school blab school board school boarding school business school charm school charter school choir school church school combined school comprehensive school continuation school convent school cram school dame school dance school dancing school day school divinity school driving school dual school e-school elementary school escalator school evening school every day is a school day feeder school film school finishing school first school flying school forest school free school free school movement freedom school grad school grade school graduate school grammar school hedge school high school home school in school in-school suspension industrial school infant school integrated school intermediate school international school john school junior high school junior school ladder school language school last mile school law school library school life school little school lower school magnet school med school medical school middle school military school mission school moonlight school music school national school national school bus chrome national-type school new school new-school night school non-school nonschool normal school nursery school old school old-school out-of-school learning out-of-school suspension parish school parochial school party school postsecondary school pre-school pregnancy school prep school preparatory school primary school primary school student private school public school public-school pushing school pushing-school ragged school real school reform school residential school riding school rule the school safety school sainik school samba school school age school band school board school book school bus school captain school class school committee school counselor school crossing attendant school day school dinner school dinner lady school district school division school glue school holiday school holidays school inspector school life school marm school mate school meal school night school of hard knocks school of the air school of thought school pence school port school psychologist school refusal school resource officer school run school shark school shooter school shooting school sores school teacher school tie school trip school uniform school voucher school year school zone school's out school-age school-aged school-butter school-dinner lady school-goer school-house school-leaver school-marm school-point school-ready school-room school-time school-wide schoolbag schoolbook schoolboy schoolchild schoolday schoolfellow schoolfriend schoolgirl schoolground schooling schoolkid schoolma'am schoolmaster schoolmistress schoolteacher schoolwork schoolyear secondary modern school secondary school secondary technical school selective school semester school semi-boarding school senior high school senior school separate school ski school skip school skoo' smile school southern school whiting special school state school summer school talk out of school teach school technical school tell tales out of school therapeutic boarding school titan primary school too cool for school trade school training school truant school umbrella school union high school upper school vaulting school vaulting-school vernacular school vested school vestibule school vocational school voluntary aided school voluntary controlled school

Has Part

classrooms many classes offices in primary purpose of teaching students

Context

british canada collective considered collectively uk us

Has Property

boring one part of society

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

animal group body building down edifice educate education educational institution fine-tune institution organization period period of time polish refine swim time period

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

boarding school college comprehensive school elementary school grade school graduate school grammar school high school junior college junior high junior high school kindergarten middle school nursery school polytechnic preschool primary school secondary modern school secondary school university

Type Of (IsA)

academic organization agent non geographical animal group body boring and torturous building education educational institution educational organization institution one place where people learn one place where teaching happens regularly organization place place for learning place go to learn place of learning place to learn place where people learn time period where children learn where people go to learn

Manner Of

educate swim

Parts (Meronyms)

classroom

Part Of

basic social infrastructure school system

Receives Action

boring

Related Terms

:Category:Schools Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/36 § graduate school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/39 § high school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/46 § junior high school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/52 § middle school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/57 § normal school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/58 § open classroom school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/65 § preparatory school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/67 § public school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/75 § secondary school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/80 § special school Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/83 § summer school Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 542. School education

Related Terms

academic academic center academy adolescents area art movement before before college before university big big building big house books books papers books teachers boring building building teachers busses center child child education children children desks children inside children learning class classes classroom classroom building classrooms col college college elementary defeat department desks desks students districts dolphin educate education education building education center education facility education institution education location education place education system educational educational building educational establishment educational facility educational institute educational institution educational place elementary elementary class elementary high emphatically establishment facility first first second fish fish grouping for children for education for learning for pupils for students form go grades group grouping harsh high high middle house inside institute institution jail jammed kid kid place kids kids education kids go kids inside kids learn kids learning kindergarten kindergarten building learn learn place learning learning area learning building learning center learning establishment learning facility learning institute learning institution learning place lesson like like college location mammals many children many classes many students marine middle multitude near kids opponent papers parochial period place place learn place learning place study place to playground playgrounds porpoise primary primary education pupils required school of thought second secondary education some classes student student learning student place students students classes students in students teachers study study place subjects system teach teachers teachers students teaching teaching building teaching children teaching institution teaching kids teaching place tertiary education train travel university walls whale where where learn with children with kids you learn younger younger university

Similar Terms

nursery school

Synonym Network

academy college department educate shoal

Used For

attending when young children classes college students educate child educating pupils education education of pupils encouraging sports encouraging team spirit exercising fish swimming together get education growing up learn learning learning things listening to teachers making friends meeting playing games processing students producing educated people protecting children providing employment for teachers providing jobs for teachers pta meetings shelter studying teach children teaching and learning teaching students

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