School vs. Cult

Schoolnoun

(collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

Schoolnoun

A multitude.

Schoolnoun

An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

Schoolnoun

(British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).

Schoolnoun

(UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

Schoolnoun

Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

Schoolnoun

An art movement, a community of artists.

Schoolnoun

The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.

Schoolnoun

The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

Schoolnoun

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.

Schoolnoun

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

Schoolnoun

An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

Schoolverb

(of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.

Schoolverb

(transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)

Schoolverb

(transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

Schoolverb

(transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

Schoolnoun

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

Schoolnoun

A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

Schoolnoun

A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

Schoolnoun

A session of an institution of instruction.

Schoolnoun

One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.

Schoolnoun

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

Schoolnoun

An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

Schoolnoun

The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.

Schoolnoun

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.

Schoolnoun

Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.

Schoolverb

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

Schoolverb

To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

Schoolnoun

an educational institution;

Schoolnoun

a building where young people receive education;

Schoolnoun

the process of being formally educated at a school;

Schoolnoun

an educational institution's faculty and students;

Schoolnoun

the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session;

Schoolnoun

a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers;

Schoolnoun

a large group of fish;

Schoolverb

educate in or as if in a school;

Schoolverb

train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;

Schoolverb

swim in or form a large group of fish;

School

A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or ) under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory.

Cultnoun

A group or sect of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.

Cultnoun

Devotion to a saint.

Cultnoun

A religion that evolved out of another religion but has become a different religion through developing a radically different theology.

Cultnoun

(informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.

Cultadjective

Of or relating to a cult.

Cultadjective

Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.

Cultnoun

Attentive care; homage; worship.

Cultnoun

A system of religious belief and worship.

Cultnoun

A system of intense religious veneration of a particular person, idea, or object, especially one considered spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies; as, the Moonie cult.

Cultnoun

The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or 3).

Cultnoun

A strong devotion or interest in a particular person, idea or thing without religious associations, or the people holding such an interest; as, the cult of James Dean; the cult of personality in totalitarian societies.

Cultnoun

adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices

Cultnoun

an interest followed with exaggerated zeal;

Cultnoun

a system of religious beliefs and rituals;

Cultnoun

a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object

Cultnoun

a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members

Cultnoun

a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular thing

Cultnoun

a person or thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society

Cult

In modern English, a cult is a social group that is defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or by its common interest in a particular personality, object, or goal. This sense of the term is controversial, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and academia, and has also been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.