Meanings (ES + gloss)
colegio • escuela
An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
facultad • universidad
An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targ…
facultad
Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
escuela
An art movement, a community of artists.
The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.
escuela
The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
These economists belong to the monetarist school.
Phrases
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