schooling

noun

school·​ing ˈskü-liŋ 

1

a

: instruction in school : education

b

: training, guidance, or discipline derived from experience

2

archaic : reproof

3

: the cost of instruction and maintenance at school

4

: the training of a horse for service

especially : the teaching and exercising of horse and rider in the formal techniques of equitation

Synonyms of schooling

• education
• teaching
• instruction

Examples of schooling in a Sentence

He has had little schooling.

the extended schooling needed for a horse to be able to make those precision movements

Recent Examples on the Web

Trimming down a year of schooling allows students to save thousands of dollars while entering the workforce earlier. — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Mandarin is the language of formal schooling in China since middle school, and the result, as Li describes it, is a generation that speaks its ancestral dialect with growing unfamiliarity. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 July 2026

Fauci has described the principles that drive him—public service, integrity, clarity of thought and speech—as the yield of his Jesuit schooling. — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

My parents never supported me through schooling, telling me that an education is a privilege, not a right. — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 21 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for schooling

• cooling
• drooling
• dueling
• duelling
• fooling
• fueling
• fuelling
• gruelling
• pooling
• ruling
• spooling
• tooling

Kids Definition

schooling

noun

school·​ing

ˈskül-iŋ

1

: instruction in school : education

2

: the cost of going to school