schooling

[ skoo-ling ]

noun

1. the process of being taught in a school.
2. instruction, education, or training, especially when received in a school.
3. the act of teaching.
4. Archaic. a reprimand.

schooling

/ ˈskuːlɪŋ /

noun

1. education, esp when received at school
2. the process of teaching or being taught in a school
3. the training of an animal, esp of a horse for dressage
4. See reprimand
   an archaic word for reprimand

Other Words From

• non·schooling noun
• self-schooling adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of schooling¹

First recorded in 1400–50, schooling is from the late Middle English word scoling. See school ¹, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

As that digitization hits industries from education, with the proliferation of online schooling, to medicine, with telehealth on the rise, PayPal’s digital financial services are doing quite well.

From Fortune

For back to school season, know that virtual and online schooling is top of mind, and parents are leveraging search to know and do more.

From Search Engine Land

They also noted that a lack of schooling increases inequalities, reduces the life chances of children, and can exacerbate physical and mental health issues.

From Fortune

A third of rural schools lack broadband, she said, which affects everything from farmers’ work to children’s schooling to telemedicine visits.

From Fortune

How difficult child care and schooling will be this fall varies depending on where agencies are based and how bad the spread of coronavirus is in that area.

From Digiday

He felt claustrophobic in the schooling system there, and needed to prove himself.

From The Daily Beast

The second was that the demand for seduction schooling was elastic.

From The Daily Beast

I smuggled drugs to make money for them, to pay for their schooling, to secure their futures with good careers.

From The Daily Beast

Today its influence, felt in everything from schooling to law enforcement, permeates Saudi society.

From The Daily Beast

For me, this child epitomizes the value of early schooling, the way it can instill a love of learning.

From The Daily Beast

But between the phase of schooling and the phase of adult learning there is an intermediate stage.

From Project Gutenberg

Now what should college give the young citizen, male or female, upon the foundation of schooling we have already sketched out?

From Project Gutenberg

My schooling was shocking but, as a blessed compensation, my college stage was rather exceptionally good.

From Project Gutenberg

If schooling is a training in expression and communication, college is essentially the establishment of broad convictions.

From Project Gutenberg

Now here again I want to put the same sort of questions I have put about schooling.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• apprenticeship
• coaching
• instruction
• learning
• literacy
• scholarship
• teaching
• training
• tutoring