Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Schooling \School"ing\, n.
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.
Schooling \School"ing\, a. [See {School} a shoal.] (Zo["o]l.)
Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
School \School\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Schooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Schooling}.]
1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a
school; to teach.
He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
--Shak.
2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to
systematic discipline; to train.
It now remains for you to school your child, And ask
why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden.
The mother, while loving her child with the
intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself
to hope for little other return than the waywardness
of an April breeze. --Hawthorne.
Source : WordNet®
schooling
n 1: the act of teaching at school
2: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what
will you do when you finish school?" [syn: {school}]
3: the training of an animal (especially the training of a
horse for dressage)