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Noun: schooling  skoo-ling
  1. The process of being formally educated at a school
    "what will you do when you finish schooling?";
    - school
     
  2. The act of teaching at school
    "The children's schooling was interrupted by the pandemic"
     
  3. The training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)
    "The young horse underwent extensive schooling to prepare for competition"
Verb: school  skool
  1. Educate in or as if in a school
    "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
     
  2. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
    "She is well schooled in poetry";
    - educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise [Brit]
     
  3. Swim in or form a large group of fish
    "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

Derived forms: schoolings

Type of: down [informal], educate, education, fine-tune, grooming, instruction, pedagogy, polish, preparation, refine, swim, teaching, training

Encyclopedia: Schooling, William

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