University vs. School

Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

Example: ‘The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.’;

The universe; the whole.

An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.

Example: ‘The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others.’;

An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty

Example: ‘The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.’;

the body of faculty and students at a university

establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees

A university (Latin: universitas, 'a whole') is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

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

Example: ‘The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.’;

A multitude.

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

Example: ‘Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.’; ‘Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.’;

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

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

Example: ‘Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.’;

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

Example: ‘We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.’;

An art movement, a community of artists.

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

Example: ‘These economists belong to the monetarist school.’;

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

Example: ‘I'll see you after school.’;

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

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

Example: ‘He was a gentleman of the old school.’;

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

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

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

Example: ‘Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.’;

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

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

Example: ‘She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.’;

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

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.

Example: ‘Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.’;

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

Example: ‘As he sat in the school at his primer.’;

A session of an institution of instruction.

Example: ‘How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day?’;

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.

Example: ‘At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools.’;

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

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

Example: ‘What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences?’;

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.

Example: ‘Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians.’;

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.

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

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

Example: ‘He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.’;

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

Example: ‘It now remains for you to school your child,And ask why God's Anointed be reviled.’; ‘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.’;

an educational institution;

Example: ‘the school was founded in 1900’;

a building where young people receive education;

Example: ‘the school was built in 1932’; ‘he walked to school every morning’;

the process of being formally educated at a school;

Example: ‘what will you do when you finish school?’;

an educational institution's faculty and students;

Example: ‘the school keeps parents informed’; ‘the whole school turned out for the game’;

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

Example: ‘stay after school’; ‘he didn't miss a single day of school’; ‘when the school day was done we would walk home together’;

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

Example: ‘the Venetian school of painting’;

a large group of fish;

Example: ‘a school of small glittering fish swam by’;

educate in or as if in a school;

Example: ‘The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions’;

train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;

Example: ‘Cultivate your musical taste’; ‘Train your tastebuds’; ‘She is well schooled in poetry’;

swim in or form a large group of fish;

Example: ‘A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait’;

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.

Example: ‘pupils’;