school – English noun declension

English noun forms of school

Noun: school
Singularschool
Pluralschools

Sample Sentences

  • Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
  • Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
  • Just one more tardy and you'll be staying after school.
  • One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools, said the report, as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. […] In Syria, 3,900 schools have been destroyed, damaged or occupied for purposes other than education since the start of the conflict over two years ago. [2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, page 1:]
  • Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
  • We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
  • The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.
  • These economists belong to the monetarist school.
  • Let no man be leſſe confident in his holy faith […] by reason of any difference of judgement vvhich is in the ſeveral Schools of Chriſtians concerning the effects and conſequent bleſſings of this Sacrament. [1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Nature, Excellencies, Uses and Intention of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Sect[ion] V. Practical Conclusions from the Preceding Discourses.”, in The Worthy Communicant or A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper […], London: […] R. Norton for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas […], published 1661, →OCLC, pages 90–91:]
  • Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • I’ll see you after school.
  • He was a gentleman of the old school.
  • His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. [1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlu, from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul.
2. Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).
3. Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”). See: Middle English Nouns 'scole', Ancient Greek Nouns 'σχολή', Dutch Nouns 'school', German Nouns 'Schule', Old Norse Nouns 'skóli', German Nouns 'Sieg', Old English Nouns 'siġe'.

Verbs referencing "school"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns skule, English Nouns sukumizu.