SCHOOLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schooling mean? 

• SCHOOLING (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLING has 3 senses:

1. the act of teaching at school

2. the process of being formally educated at a school

3. the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)

  Familiarity information: SCHOOLING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of teaching at school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("schooling" is a kind of...):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

Derivation:

school (educate in or as if in a school)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The process of being formally educated at a school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

school; schooling

Context example:

what will you do when you finish school?

Hypernyms ("schooling" is a kind of...):

education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("schooling" is a kind of...):

grooming; preparation; training (activity leading to skilled behavior)

 Context examples 

But I’ve never tried what all this schooling has done for you, Rodney.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had good schooling in his young days and can speak like a book when so minded; and brave—a lion's nothing alongside of Long John!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A demographic parameter indicating the average amount of schooling in a particular population or/and during a particular period of time.

(Average Education Level, NCI Thesaurus)

Indicates that a person has never attended an educational program or formal schooling.

(No Formal Schooling, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication of the years of schooling completed in graded public, private, or parochial schools, and in colleges, universities, or professional schools.

(Education Level, NCI Thesaurus)

He had evidently been schooling himself as to all sorts of little things, and remembered them; but he almost managed to sit down on his silk hat, which men don't generally do when they are cool, and then when he wanted to appear at ease he kept playing with a lancet in a way that made me nearly scream.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was two years my elder, however, so that, long before I had finished my schooling, he had gone to help his uncle at the smithy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, there are men in the fleet who never had any schooling at all who could tell you that we had seven 74’s, seven 64’s, and two 50-gun ships in the action.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)