Synonyms of the word

school

• n. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
• n. A multitude.
• v. (intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
• n. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
• n. (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education…
• n. (Britain) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
• n. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which…
• n. An art movement, a community of artists.
• n. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular…
• n. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
• n. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
• n. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class…
• n. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
• v. (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.).
• v. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
• v. (transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

body

• n. Physical frame.
• n. Main section.
• n. Coherent group.
• n. Material entity.
• n. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
• n. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
• v. To give body or shape to something.
• v. To construct the bodywork of a car.
• v. (transitive) To embody.

building

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of building.
• n. A closed structure with walls and a roof.
• v. present participle of build.

civilise

• v. To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
• v. To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably…
• v. To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.

civilize

• v. Alternative spelling of civilise.

cultivate

• v. To grow plants, notably crops.
• v. To nurture; to foster; to tend.
• v. To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.

down

• n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland.
• n. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
• n. (Britain, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered…
• n. (slang, rare, countable) A penis.
• adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
• adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path.
• adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
• adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
• adv. Into a state of non-operation.
• adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
• adv. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
• adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
• adv. (Britain, academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
• adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
• adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
• adv. From less to greater detail.
• adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
• adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather…
• prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
• prep. From one end to another of.
• adj. Depressed, feeling low.
• adj. At a lower level than before.
• adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
• adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
• adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to.
• adj. (not comparable, US, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
• adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
• adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled…
• adj. (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
• adj. (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down,…
• adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.).
• adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
• v. (transitive) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid…
• v. (transitive) To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
• v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
• v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while…
• v. (transitive) To write off; to make fun of.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend.
• n. A negative aspect; a downer.
• n. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
• n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
• n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle…
• n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
• n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
• n. Down payment.
• n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping…
• n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as…
• n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
• n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
• v. (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

edifice

• n. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially an imposing one; a large or fine building,…
• n. An abstract structure; a school of thought.

educate

• v. to instruct or train.

education

• n. (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
• n. (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.

fine-tune

• v. To make small adjustments to something until optimization is achieved.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

polish

• n. A substance used to polish.
• n. Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
• n. Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
• v. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
• v. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
• v. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.
• v. (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
• v. (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

refine

• v. (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
• v. (intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
• v. (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance etc.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
• v. (transitive) To make nice or subtle.

schoolhouse

• n. A building housing a school, especially a small or single-room one.

schooling

• n. Training or instruction.
• n. Institutional education; attendance of school.
• n. (dressage) The training of a horse at dressage.
• n. (obsolete) Discipline; reproof; reprimand.
• n. (obsolete) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
• v. present participle of school.

schooltime

• n. Time spent in school; classtime.
• n. Time spent at school; schooldays.

shoal

• adj. (now rare) Shallow.
• n. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
• n. A shallow in a body of water.
• v. To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
• v. To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
• v. To become shallow.
• n. Any large number of persons or things.
• n. (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
• v. To collect in a shoal; to throng.

swim

• v. (intransitive, archaic) To float.
• v. (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural…
• v. (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize…
• v. (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
• v. (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
• v. (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather…
• v. (transitive) To undergo a giddy sensation.
• n. An act or instance of swimming.
• n. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
• n. (Britain) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
• abbr. (Internet slang, text messaging) Someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination,…

train

• n. Elongated portion.
• n. Connected sequence of people or things.
• v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
• v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
• v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
• v. To proceed in sequence.
• v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
• v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
• v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
• v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
• v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
• n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
• n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
• n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
• n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.