Schooling
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
schooling
n 1: the act of teaching at school
2: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what
will you do when you finish school?" [syn: {school},
{schooling}]
3: the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse
for dressage)
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Schooling \School"ing\, n.
1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an
institution of learning; act of teaching.
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2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good
schooling. --Sir W. Scott.
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3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an
instructor for teaching pupils.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
School \School\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Schooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Schooling}.]
1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a
school; to teach.
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He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
--Shak.
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2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to
systematic discipline; to train.
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It now remains for you to school your child,
And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden.
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The mother, while loving her child with the
intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself
to hope for little other return than the waywardness
of an April breeze. --Hawthorne.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "schooling":
book learning, booklore, catechization, coaching, didactics,
direction, edification, education, enlightenment, guidance,
illumination, indoctrination, information, instruction, knowledge,
learning, pedagogics, pedagogy, preparation, private teaching,
programmed instruction, reeducation, research, self-instruction,
self-teaching, spoon-feeding, study, teaching, training, tuition,
tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship
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