school
US: /ˈskuɫ/
UK: /skˈuːl/
UK: /skˈuːl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
school /sku:l/
- danh từ
- đàn cá, bầy cá
- school fish: loại cá thường đi thành bầy
- đàn cá, bầy cá
- nội động từ
- hợp thành đàn, bơi thành bầy (cá...)
- hợp thành đàn, bơi thành bầy (cá...)
- danh từ
- trường học, học đường
- normal school: trường sư phạm
- primary school: trường sơ cấp
- private school: trường tư
- public school: trường công
- secondary school: trường trung học
- to keep a school: mở trường tư
- trường sở, phòng học
- chemistry school: phòng dạy hoá học
- trường (toàn thể học sinh một trường)
- the whole school knows it: toàn trường biết việc đó
- (nghĩa bóng) trường, hiện trường
- he learnt his generalship in a serve school: ông ta đã học tập nghệ thuật chỉ huy quân sự trong một hiện trường rất ác liệt
- giảng đường (thời Trung cổ)
- buổi học, giờ học, giờ lên lớp; sự đi học
- there will be no school today: hôm nay không học
- trường phái
- school of art: trường phái nghệ thuật
- môn học
- the history school: môn sử học
- phòng thi (ở trường đại học); sự thi
- to be in the schools: dự thi, đi thi
- môn đệ, môn sinh
- (âm nhạc) sách dạy đàn
- a gentleman of the old school
- một người quân tử theo kiểu cũ
- to go to school to somebody
- theo đòi ai, học hỏi ai
- trường học, học đường
- ngoại động từ
- cho đi học; dạy dỗ giáo dục
- rèn luyện cho vào khuôn phép
- to school one's temper: rèn luyện tính tình
- to school onself to patience: rèn luyện tính kiên nhẫn
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
where children learn
1 [C] a place where children go to be educated: My brother and I went to the same school. + (formal) Which school do they attend? + I'm going to the school today to talk to Kim's teacher. + We need more money for roads, hospitals and schools. + school buildings / rules / buses
2 [U] (used without the or a) the process of learning in a school; the time during your life when you go to a school: (BrE) to start / leave school + (AmE) to start / quit school + Where did you go to school? + (BrE) All my kids are still at school. + (AmE) All my kids are still in school. + (AmE) to teach school (= teach in a school) + The transition from school to work can be difficult.
3 [U] (used without the or a) the time during the day when children are working in a school: Shall I meet you after school today? + School begins at 9. + The kids are at / in school until 3.30. + after-school activities / clubs
students and teachers
4 (the school) [sing.] all the children or students and the teachers in a school: I had to stand up in front of the whole school.
for particular skill
5 [C] (often in compounds) a place where people go to learn a particular subject or skill: a drama / language / riding school + the London Business School
college / university
6 [C, U] (AmE, informal) a college or university; the time that you spend there: famous schools like Yale and Harvard + I've known her since law school. + Where did you go to school?
See also -
7 [C] a department of a college or university that teaches a particular subject: the university medical / law school + the School of Dentistry / Languages
of writers / artists
8 [C] a group of writers, artists, etc. whose style of work or opinions have been influenced by the same person or ideas: the Dutch school of painting
of fish
9 [C] a large number of fish or other sea animals, swimming together: a school of dolphins / sharks / whales
Compare: SHOAL
Help Note: There are many compounds ending in school. You will find them at their place in the alphabet.
Idioms: school(s) of thought a way of thinking that a number of people share: There are two schools of thought about how this illness should be treated. + He belongs to the school of thought that says that competition can be very stimulating for children.
more at OLD
+ verb
yourself / animal
1 ~ sb / yourself (in sth) (formal) to train sb/yourself/an animal to do sth: [VN] to school a horse + She had schooled herself in patience. + [VN to inf] I have schooled myself to remain calm under pressure.
child
2 [VN] (formal) to educate a child: She should be schooled with her peers.
GRAMMAR POINT
school
When a school is being referred to as an institution, you do not need to use the: When do the children finish school? When you are talking about a particular building, the is used:
I'll meet you outside the school. Prison, jail, court, and church work in the same way:
Her husband spent three years in prison.
- note at COLLEGE, HOSPITAL
BRITISH / AMERICAN
at / in school
In BrE someone who is attending school is at school: I was at school with her sister. In AmE in school is used:
I have a ten-year-old in school. In school in AmE can also mean 'attending a university'.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 (educational) institution, kindergarten, nursery school, primary or grammar or secondary or high school, institute, college, university, seminary; Alma Mater; boarding-school, day-school; public school, private school, Brit State school; lycée; Lyceum, Brit first or middle school, US junior high school:
His mother was very upset when he hinted that he might quit school.
2 set, coterie, circle, clique, group, denomination, faction, sect, followers, devotees, adherents, votaries, disciples; style, kind, form, manner, fashion:
Burne-Jones belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite School of painters.
3 philosophy, principles, creed, set of beliefs, way of life, persuasion, credo, dogma, teaching, view, opinion, faction, approach:
Regarding the creation of the universe, do you support the big-bang school or the steady-state school?
v.
4 teach, educate, drill, inculcate, instil, indoctrinate, instruct, tutor, train, discipline, coach, prepare, prime, equip, ready; mould, shape, form; school in, imbue with, infuse with:
Young ladies were schooled in all the social graces.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
elementary, high, middle, nursery, prep/preparatory, primary, secondary | comprehensive, grammar, secondary modern | direct-grant, grant-maintained, state | independent, private, public
(In Britain ‘public schools’ are private.)
| special
She attends a special school for children with learning difficulties.
| boys', co-educational, girls', mixed, mixed-sex, single-sex | boarding, residential | day | Sunday | summer | local, rural, village | art, business, dance, drama, film, language, medical, riding, secretarial, training, etc.
VERB + SCHOOL
attend, go to | start | finish, leave | skip, (play) truant from | be/stay off, keep sb off
His mum kept him off school for two weeks when he was ill.
SCHOOL + NOUN
curriculum | student | teacher
(also
schoolteacher)
She's a middle-school teacher.
| leaver | building, hall, library | term, year | holidays | bus | meals | rules | uniform | assembly | age
She's got four children of school age.
PREP.
after ~
We're going to play football after school.
| at (a/the) ~
She didn't do very well at school. Their son's at the school near the station.
| in (a/the)~
Are the children still in school? the cleverest child in the school
Concise English dictionary
schools|schooled|schoolingskuːl
noun
+an educational institution
+a building where young people receive education
+the process of being formally educated at a school
+an educational institution's faculty and students
+the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session
+a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
+a large group of fish
verb
+educate in or as if in a school
+train to be discriminative in taste or judgment
+swim in or form a large group of fish
