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Meaning of schooling

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

schooling

verb

Definitions

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

verb

Definitions

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

    Example: Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.

  2. To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

  3. To control, or compose, one's expression.

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

noun

Definitions

  1. Training or instruction.

  2. Institutional education; attendance of school.

    Example: I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

  3. The training of a horse at dressage.

  4. Discipline; reproof; reprimand.

    Example: He gave his son a good schooling.