| adulthood | (noun) the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity | - |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: maturity |
| alehoof | (noun) trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta | Synonyms: field balm, gill-over-the-ground, Glechoma hederaceae, ground ivy, Nepeta hederaceae, runaway robin |
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| babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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| (noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
| bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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| (noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
| ballyhoo | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: hoopla, hype, plug |
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| (verb) advertize noisily or blatantly | - |
| behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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| billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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| cahoot | (noun) collusion | - |
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| childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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| (noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
| choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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| (verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
| chooser | (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: picker, selector |
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| choosey | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosy |
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| choosy | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosey |
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| crapshoot | (noun) playing craps | Synonyms: crap game, crap shooting |
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| (noun) a risky and uncertain venture | - |
| crapshooter | (noun) a gambler who plays the game of craps | - |
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| falsehood | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsity, untruth |
| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| fishhook | (noun) a sharp barbed hook for catching fish | - |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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| greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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| hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| hooch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hootch |
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| hood | (noun) (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal | - |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, cowling |
| (noun) a headdress that protects the head and face | - |
| (noun) the folding roof of a carriage | - |
| (noun) metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes | Synonyms: exhaust hood |
| (noun) (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head | - |
| (noun) a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera | Synonyms: lens hood |
| (noun) (slang) a neighborhood or community | Synonyms: 'hood |
| (noun) a protective covering that is part of a plant | Synonyms: cap |
| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| (verb) cover with a hood | - |
| hoodlum | (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
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| hoodmold | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: dripstone, hoodmould |
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| hoodmould | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: dripstone, hoodmold |
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| hoodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, juju, voodoo |
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| (noun) something believed to bring bad luck | - |
| (noun) a practitioner of voodoo | - |
| (noun) (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock | - |
| (verb) bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune | - |
| hoodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: vodoun, voodoo, voodooism |
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| hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
| hooey | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| hoof | (noun) the foot of an ungulate mammal | - |
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| (noun) the horny covering of the end of the foot in ungulate mammals | - |
| (verb) dance in a professional capacity | - |
| (verb) walk | Synonyms: foot, hoof it, leg it |
| hoofed | (adjective) having or resembling hoofs | Synonyms: hooved, ungulate, ungulated |
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| hoofer | (noun) a professional dancer | Synonyms: stepper |
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| hoofing | (noun) dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures | Synonyms: step dancing |
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| hooflike | (adjective) resembling a hoof; especially having the horny texture of a hoof | - |
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| hoofprint | (noun) a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal | Synonyms: hoof-mark, hoof mark |
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| hook | (noun) a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent | - |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hooking |
| (noun) a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket | Synonyms: hook shot |
| (noun) a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: claw |
| (noun) a catch for locking a door | - |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: crotchet |
| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, solicit |
| (verb) entice and trap | Synonyms: snare |
| (verb) secure with the foot | - |
| (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: addict |
| (verb) fasten with a hook | - |
| (verb) catch with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left | - |
| (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| hooked | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, strung-out |
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| (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: aquiline |
| (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooklike |
| hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| (noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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| hooklike | (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooked |
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| hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
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| hooks | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: maulers, meat hooks |
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| hookup | (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: assemblage |
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| (noun) a device providing a connection between a power source and a user | - |
| hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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| (noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
| hooky | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: truancy |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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| hooman | (noun) human, mispronounced for comic effect | - |
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| hoop | (noun) a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling | Synonyms: ring |
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| (noun) a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt | - |
| (noun) a small arch used as croquet equipment | Synonyms: wicket |
| (noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basket, basketball hoop |
| (verb) bind or fasten with a hoop | - |
| hoopla | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: ballyhoo, hype, plug |
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| hoopoe | (noun) any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill | Synonyms: hoopoo |
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| hoopoo | (noun) any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill | Synonyms: hoopoe |
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| hoops | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball, basketball game |
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| hoopskirt | (noun) a skirt stiffened with hoops | Synonyms: crinoline |
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| hoopy | (adjective) Neat, really together, knowing where one's towel is | - |
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| hooray | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hurrah |
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| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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| hoosgow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosegow |
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| hoot | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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| (noun) a loud raucous cry (as of an owl) | - |
| (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razz, razzing, snort |
| (verb) to utter a loud clamorous shout | - |
| (verb) utter the characteristic sound of owls | - |
| hootch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hooch |
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| hooter | (noun) nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes | Synonyms: bird of Minerva, bird of night, owl |
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| (noun) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise | Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, horn, motor horn |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| hooved | (adjective) having or resembling hoofs | Synonyms: hoofed, ungulate, ungulated |
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| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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| interschool | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interscholastic |
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| knighthood | (noun) aristocrats holding the rank of knight | - |
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| likelihood | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likeliness |
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| livelihood | (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, living, support, sustenance |
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| maidenhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidhood |
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| maidhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidenhood |
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| manhood | (noun) the status of being a man | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, humanness |
| (noun) the state of being a man; manly qualities | - |
| markhoor | (noun) large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns | Synonyms: Capra falconeri, markhor |
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| monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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| motherhood | (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: maternity |
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| nationhood | (noun) the state of being a nation | - |
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| neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
| (noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
| (noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
| neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
| offshoot | (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, outgrowth |
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| orphanhood | (noun) the condition of being a child without living parents | Synonyms: orphanage |
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| overshoot | (noun) an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt | Synonyms: go-around, wave-off |
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| (verb) aim too high | - |
| (verb) shoot beyond or over (a target) | - |
| parenthood | (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parentage |
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| peasanthood | (noun) the state of being a peasant | - |
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| personhood | (noun) being a person | - |
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| playschool | (noun) a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions | Synonyms: play group |
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| pothook | (noun) an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire | - |
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| preschool | (noun) an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
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| preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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| priesthood | (noun) the body of ordained religious practitioners | - |
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| ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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| reshoot | (verb) shoot again | - |
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| sainthood | (noun) the status and dignity of a saint | - |
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| (noun) saints collectively | - |
| school | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: schoolhouse |
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| (noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: schooling |
| (noun) an educational institution | - |
| (noun) a large group of fish | Synonyms: shoal |
| (noun) a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers | - |
| (noun) an educational institution's faculty and students | - |
| (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school day, schooltime |
| (verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
| (verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |
| schoolbag | (noun) a bag for carrying school books and supplies | - |
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