schooling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of teaching at school
  2. noun the process of being formally educated at a school
    school.
    • what will you do when you finish school?
  3. noun the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)
  4. verb educate in or as if in a school
    school.
    • The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions
  5. verb teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
    educate; civilise; school; train; cultivate; civilize.
    • Cultivate your musical taste
    • Train your tastebuds
    • She is well schooled in poetry
  6. verb swim in or form a large group of fish
    school.
    • A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait

WordNet

School"ing noun
Definitions
  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 adjective
Etymology
See School a shoal.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals. used of fish
    Schooling species like the herring and menhaden. G. B. Goode.

Webster 1913