School vs. Madrasah — What's the Difference?

A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory.

An institution for the study of Islamic theology and religious law.

An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.

The buildings and grounds of such an institution, typically attached to a mosque.

An institution for instruction in a skill or business

(Islam) A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology.

A college or university.

Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan;

An institution within or associated with a college or university that gives instruction in a specialized field and recommends candidates for degrees.

A division of an educational institution constituting several grades or classes

The student body of an educational institution.

The building or group of buildings housing an educational institution.

The process of being educated formally, especially education constituting a planned series of courses over a number of years

A session of instruction

A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief

A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions

Close-order drill instructions or exercises for military units or personnel.

(Australian) A group of people gathered together for gambling.

A large group of aquatic animals, especially fish, swimming together; a shoal.

To educate in or as if in a school.

To train or discipline

(Slang) To defeat or put down decisively, especially in a humiliating manner

To swim in or form into a school.

Of or relating to school or education in schools

(North America) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

(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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

A multitude.

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

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

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

To form into, or travel in, a school.

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.

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

A session of an institution of instruction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

An educational institution;

A building where young people receive education;

The process of being formally educated at a school;

An educational institution's faculty and students;

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

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

A large group of fish;

Educate in or as if in a school;

Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;

Swim in or form a large group of fish;