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Webster 1913 Edition
Schooling
School′ing
,Noun.
1.
Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
2.
Discipline; reproof; reprimand;
as, he gave his son a good
. schooling
Sir W. Scott.
3.
Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
School′ing
,Adj.
[See
School
a shoal.] (Zool.)
Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
Schooling
species like the herring and menhaden. G. B. Goode.
Webster 1828 Edition
Schooling
SCHOOL'ING
,ppr.
SCHOOL'ING
, n.1.
Instruction in school; tuition.2.
Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.3.
Reproof; reprimand. He gave his son a good schooling.Definition 2024
schooling
schooling
English
Noun
schooling (countable and uncountable, plural schoolings)
- Training or instruction.
- Institutional education; attendance of school.
- I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- (dressage) The training of a horse at dressage.
- (obsolete) Discipline; reproof; reprimand.
- He gave his son a good schooling.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
Translations
training or instruction
institutional education
Verb
schooling
- present participle of school